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Aceh Salt Producers Get New Boiling Facilities After Disasters
Indonesia’s fisheries ministry provided 15 salt-boiling units to coastal communities in Bireuen, Aceh, as part of recovery after disasters.
The facilities are meant to help local salt producers restart production and restore their livelihoods.
Each unit includes a permanent boiling house and equipment such as larger stoves and pans.
In one reported example, output rose from 20–30 kilograms per boiling session to about 70–120 kilograms.
With two sessions a day, that unit can produce about 1.4 tonnes a week, though results vary between units.
The ministry’s wider plan is to build 506 units in five Aceh districts, including 55 in Bireuen.
The increased capacity is intended to support salt businesses and improve household incomes, and communities are expected to maintain the facilities.
Indonesia’s Fisheries and Marine Affairs Ministry handed over 15 salt-boiling facilities to coastal communities in Bireuen, Aceh.
The facilities are part of post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts to restore salt production and livelihoods.
The 15 units are the first phase of a target to build 55 in Bireuen and 506 across five Aceh districts.
One facility’s reported output rose from 20–30 kilograms per boiling process to about 70–120 kilograms.
- Who
- Indonesia’s Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries provided the facilities to salt producers in Bireuen.
- What
- The ministry handed over 15 salt-boiling facilities as part of post-disaster recovery.
- When
- November 8, 2026. The article does not state the exact handover date.
- Where
- Bireuen district, Aceh, Indonesia.
- Why
- To restore salt production and coastal livelihoods after disasters, and to support higher productivity.
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CNBC Indonesia reported that the ministry had handed over 15 salt-boiling facilities in Bireuen.
One facility’s reported output per boiling process increased from 20–30 kilograms to about 70–120 kilograms.
- Facilities handed over
- 15 units
- Bireuen target
- 55 units
- Aceh-wide target
- 506 units across five districts
- Districts named
- Bireuen, Pidie, Pidie Jaya, North Aceh, and East Aceh
- Reported output per boiling process
- About 70–120 kilograms after assistance, compared with 20–30 kilograms before
What people are saying
After 27 years of the ministry serving the people, we hope the welfare of fishers and marine and fisheries communities will continue to improve.
This assistance is not only in the form of sturdier and permanent buildings, but is also equipped with stoves and boiling pans with a larger capacity than before, water storage drums, wheelbarrows, sand shovels, and sand rakes.