Jakarta (ANTARA) – 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 task forces to document residents' preferences between the “in-situ” or “communal” housing schemes.He explained that the in-situ scheme involves rebuilding homes on the residents' own land. Under this option, residents can choose to have the government build the house or build it themselves with funding support of approximately Rp60 million (around US$3,500).Meanwhile, under the communal scheme, the residents will be relocated to new housing complexes prepared by the government.The minister emphasized that residents' choices must be clearly documented through forms and accompanied by written statements, allowing the central government to determine the construction pattern for the permanent housing.“The faster we get the data on who wants in-situ housing and who prefers the communal complex, the easier it will be for us to coordinate the construction,” he said.He also reminded regional governments to be proactive in carrying out data collection rather than simply waiting for central government assistance.Karnavian stressed that the construction of permanent housing is a vital step in restoring the lives of disaster-affected residents, who have previously been staying in temporary houses or receiving house-rental assistance.