Jakarta, March 17 -- Home Affairs Minister Tito Karnavian has called on regional governments in Sumatra to speed up data collection for residents set to receive permanent housing following floods and landslides that hit in November 2025.

"All regional heads are saying the same thing: they want permanent housing to be built quickly. However, the data must be clear first," he said in a statement in Jakarta on Tuesday.

Karnavian, concurrently serving as chair of the Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force, stated that accelerating the data collection process is crucial so the central government can immediately begin the construction.

According to him, regional leaders need to form special teams or t...