The Urgency of Establishing a Natural Disaster Management Agency in Indonesia

Abstract

Severe damage and large losses will be the result of the earthquake. Thus, pre-disaster activities to reduce the impact of carried out by various parties such as the central and local governments, relevant agencies and society is very important. Therefore, the central government will make a design “action against earthquakes” as a master plan for dealing with disasters earthquakes, including pre-disaster measures, emergency response, and post-disaster stages. To measure the impact of these disaster risk reduction efforts, the central government will set one goal that can be measured quantitatively for a certain period of time. Observations of the achievements of these efforts will be continued on a regular basis. Moreover, participation and coordination with local government is very important to achieve this goal, so the local government concerned must take responsibility for responsible for developing regional goals that are in line with the coping strategy national disaster.