Ma'ruf Amin Warns About Clean Water Provision, Here's Indonesia's Achievement in Access to Safe Drinking Water

According to Vice President Ma'ruf Amin's statement, only 90.78% of households had access to adequate drinking water in 2021. Over the past three years, the trend of adequate drinking water services has shown an increase, but it has not been significant.

“This current achievement should serve as a wake-up call for us. The remaining time until the target must be optimized to accelerate our performance together,” said Ma'ruf at the launch of the Indonesia Water Fund, as reported by *Kompas.com* on Monday (17/10/2022).

At the event, Ma'ruf stated that the upward trend in the coverage of adequate drinking water services needs to be boosted because it only increased by 1.5% in the last three years.

Based on data from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS), the percentage of households with access to adequate drinking water was 90.78% in 2021. This figure increased by 57 basis points (bps) from the previous year's achievement of 90.21%.

However, the government targets 100% of households to have access to adequate drinking water by 2024. This means that in the next two years, the current achievement must be increased to 100%.

DKI Jakarta is the province with the highest national coverage of households with access to adequate drinking water, reaching 99.86%. This is followed by Bali at 97.56%, and Yogyakarta Special Region at 95.69%.

Meanwhile, in Papua, only 64.93% of households had access to adequate drinking water last year. This is the lowest achievement nationally. The provinces with the next lowest access to adequate drinking water are Bengkulu at 67.39%, and Bangka Belitung Islands at 73.4%.