"When a disaster is predicted to happen, what will you do? Maybe you will hear about the safety and the precautions mentioned in the mass media. Keep yourself updated about the hazards and prepare for the unexpected situation. Or maybe ready to leave your house to the nearest evacuation center? Just remember, no matter what you do ... do NOT panic!"
Indonesia is populated with over 200 million people living across a far stretched archipelago. They live in 1.9 million hectares of land; consist of 17.583 islands, which have more than 500 volcanoes, 128 of which are active volcanoes and 5860 rivers. Many of them are vulnerable to natural and man-made disasters.
The Indonesian Government has placed a degree of importance in managing disasters that often visit this country. They have established a coordinating body for natural disaster management named Badan Koordinasi Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana Alam (Bakornas PBA, National Coordinating Body for Natural Disaster Management). At the regional level, the counterparts of Bakornas PBP are the Satkorlak PBP (literally translated as Coordinating Unit for Disaster and IDP Management) at the provincial level and Satlak PBP (Implementing Unit for Disaster and IDP Management).
Chairman : Vice President
Members :
Ø Minister of Home Affairs
Ø Minister of Social Affairs
Ø Minister of Health
Ø Minister of Public Works
Ø Minister of Finance
Ø Minister of Transportation
Ø Chief Commander of
Army
Ø Head of National Police
Secretary :
Secretary of Vice President
The basic duties are:
- Formulating and Stipulating policies in disaster management
- Coordinate the implementation and monitoring activities in disaster management
- Rendering guidance and direction on disaster management
Particularly during the time of “no disasters” Bakornas PBP is dormant. Its work is very much represented by the work of the Secretariat and thus its performance of Bakornas is very much measured by outsiders in view of the performance of its Secretariat.
Republic Indonesia has a prepared organization to cope with the ongoing natural disaster using the local resources however I think, disaster management in Indonesia needs support from space technologies in terms of hazard and risk mapping, early warning, damage assessment and rehabilitation to make things as under control as possible .
Resources:1) http://www.aprsaf.org/data/malaysia_tecshop_data/malaysia_presen_day1/pm/4_Indonesia.pdf
2) http://www.adpc.net/pdr-sea/publications/6-PIA-Ind.pdf
3) http://www.aprsaf.org/data/aprsaf13_data/2_1_INDONESIA%20DM_1515day1.pdf
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