THE FEALAC SYMPOSIUM ON PAN-OCEANIC COOPERATION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION BANGKOK & - PHUKET, THAILAND, NOVEMBER 9-12, 2009 MINIMIZING THE IMPACT ON DISASTERS : INDONESIAS EXPERIENCE Presentation by Amnal Rachman Deputy Director for Regional Cooperation Asia-America Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Repbulic of Indonesia

INDONESIA GEOGRAPHIC CONDITION INDONESIA HAS AROUND ISLANDS AND LOCATED BETWEEN PACIFIC, EURASIAN AND INDO-AUSTRALIAN TECTONIC PLATES. IT ALSO SITUATED IN THE RING OF FIREAT AND HAS AT LEAST 150 ACTIVE VOLCANOES (10 % OF THE WORLD TOTAL). IT HAS SUNNY AND RAINY SEASONS. AVERAGE ANNUAL RAINFALL 125 – 240 INCH AND DURING THE WET SEASONS SOME PART OF THE INDONESIA FACES FLOOD AND IN DRY CONFRONTS DROUGHT. SUCH GEOGRAPHIC CONDITION, THE COUNTRY FACES NATURAL DISASTER SUCH AS EARTHQUAKES, TSUNAMIS, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, LANDSLIDES, FLOODS, DROUGHT, HURRICANES, TIDES, FOREST FIRES, EPIDEMIC DISEASES AND MAN-MADE DISASTER LIKE SIDOARJO MUDFLOW. THESE CAUSE ENVIRONMENTAL CATASTROPHES, LOSS OF ASSETS, LIVES, THAT BRING THE PSYCOLOGICAL IMPACTS HAMPERING NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. THE SEISMIC ACTIVITIES AMONG OTHERS ARE THE 2004 EARTHQUAKE IN NORTHERN SUMATRA THAT KILLED ALMOST , THE YOGYAKARTA KILLED IN 2006, WEST JAVA TSUNAMI IN 2009 AND WEST SUMATRA HQUAKE IN 30 SEPTEMBER 2009 KILLED AROUND IN OCTOBER 2009 ALONE, THERE WERE 54 EARTHQUAKES IN INDONESIA. NOW THE KARANG ETAN OF NORTH SULAWESI IS ERUPTING.

INDONESIAS VOLCANIC SPREAD

EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMI EARTHQUAKE IN MANOKWARI, PAPUA, JANUARY 2009 EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IN ACEH AND NORTH SUMATRA, DESEMBER 2004

LANDSLIDES NORTH SUMATRA, NOVEMBER 2003

FLOOD IN JAKARTA JANUARI 2008 FLOOD AND LANDSLIDE IN PATI 3 FEBRUARY 2008 AND BONDOWOSO, EAST JAVA 8 FEBRURY 2008

FOREST FIRE IN SUMATRA AND KALIMANTAN EVERY DRY SEASON (JULY-SEPTEMBER)

VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS OF GUNUNG KELUD OCT.2007 VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS OF GUNUNG GAMGONORO, JULY 2007

MAN-MADE/TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTER SIDOARJO MUDFLOW

DEAD AND MISSING IN NATURAL DISASTER 2007

VICTIMS AND REFUGEES OF DISASTER 2007

CASUALTIES AND REFUGEES 2007

NATURAL DISASTER DATA 2008

DEAD AND MISSING 2008

VICTIMS AND REFUGEES 2008

PROPERTY DAMAGE 2008

LAWS ON DISASTER MITIGATION THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF INDONESIA PROTECTING ALL PEOPLE AND THEIR ENTIRE LAND AS MANDATED BY NATIONAL 1945 CONSTITUTION AND STATE PHILOSOPHY OF PANCASILA. LAW NO.24 OF 2007 ON THE DISASTER MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS NOS.21 AND 22 OF 2008 ON DISASTER MITIGATION AND ITS BUDGET GOVERNMENT REGULATION NO. 23 OF 2008 ON THE INTERNATIONAL AND NGOS PARTICIPATION ON DISASTER RELIEVES AND MITIGATION

GOVERNMENTS EFFORT TO PROTECT ITS PEOPLE FROM DISASTER.DISASTER PREVENTION, EMERGENCY RESPONSE, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION..INSTALLING EARLY WARNING SYSTEM, BUILDING PEOPLE AWARENESS AND IDENTIFICATION OF THE POSSIBLE DISASTER AREA..

INSTITUTIONS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISASTER NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AGENCY (BNPB) MINISTRY OF SOCIAL INDONESIAN RED CROSS NATIONAL NGOS LOCAL GOVERNMENT INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

EMERGENCY, REHABILITATION AND RECONSTRUCTION EMERGENCY RESPONSE BY UNDERTAKING SERIES OF ACTIVITIES, NAMELY RESCUE AND EVACUATION OF VICTIMS, ASSETS, DELIVERY BASIC NEEDS, MEDICAL ASSISTANCE AND IDP MANAGEMENT REHABILITATION STAGE IS REPAIRING AND RECOVERYING ALL PUBLIC SERVICES TO BRING NORMAL LIFE. RECONSTRUCTION STAGE IS AMONG OTHERS REBUILDING ALL INFRASTRUCTURES AND FACITILITIES, INSTITUTIONS TO INITIATE AND GROW ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, UPHOLD LAW AND ORDER AND TO PROMOTE PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN ALL ASPECTS OF COMMUNITY LIFE AFTER DISASTER.

EMERGENCY EXERCISES LEAFLET AND PUBLICATION

EARLY WARNING OBSERVING DISASTER INDICATION ANALYZING OBSERVATION RESULTS DECISION MAKING DESSIMINATION INFORMATION ACTIONS TAKEN BY PUBLIC

TSUNAMI DISASTER MITIGATION ALERT ON TSUNAMI EDUCATING THE PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY WHO LIVE NEAR BEACHES ON THE DANGER OF TSUNAMI INSTALLING TSUNAMI EARLY WARNING SYSTEM BUILDING THE BRICK ON THE RISK COASTLINES PLANTING MANGROVE OR OTHER TREES TO SLOW DOWN THE WAVES OF TSUNAMI CONSTRUCTING THE HIGH PLACES AS EVACUATION SITES EDUCATING PEOPLE ON THE SIGN OF TSUNAMI AND HOW TO MOVE OUT OF THE SITUATION EQUIPING WITH MEANS OF TELECOMMUNICATION

CONCLUSION BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCES, TO MITIGATE THE DISASTER IT SHOULD BE PARTICIPATED BY ALL COMPONENTS OF SOCIETY INDONESIA WELCOMES INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION TO REDUCE THE RISK OF DISASTERS THANK YOU