Heavy rain overnight that did not stop did not dampen the spirits of the residents of Ujungjaya Village, Tamanjaya, Kertamukti and Ciburial Village to attend the results seminar and ratification of the earthquake contingency plan document in the program “Develop Community-Led for Disaster Risk Management (DCLDRM) 2022” on Tuesday, 14 February 2023. this program is a program aimed at advocating and promoting the role of local leaders who can manage disaster risk in their area. This program is an initiative of the Scale Indonesia Foundation which is supported by the New Zealand Embassy to increase the capacity of the people who were badly affected by the earthquake that occurred in 14 January 2022. Since July-December 2022, this program was carried out starting from a participatory disaster risk assessment, make contingency plans together and do table top exercise from the resulting documents.
Seminar results this time, attended by various parties starting from the Social Service of Kab. Pandeglang, Bappeda Kab. Pandeglang, BPBD Kab. Pandeglang and also the community of the four villages where the program was carried out. Besides that, this event was also broadcast live via zoom and also youtube disasterchannel.co.
Sururoh Link, as the program coordinator said that this program is part of community capacity building to reduce disaster risk. Dalam Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) held in Indonesia in May 2022, have a theme “leave no one behind”. This inspires us to actively involve the community at the local level and empower the most at-risk communities as the main actors in disaster management. In order to realize the themeleave no one behind”, then we need to transfer knowledge and knowledge regarding threats and also disaster preparedness in the region. This program produced an Earthquake Contingency Plan document for the four villages. This document can be run by the community when a disaster occurs. Lee hopes, This document can be applied as well as updated and can inspire other regions to do the same.
on this program, The document created is an earthquake contingency plan document. This is based on the high threat of earthquakes lurking in this region. Arief Pramono Sunu explained about the threat of an earthquake in the Pandeglang area. It said, This area has very little seismic study, but there are frequent earthquakes. Arief emphasized that information related to potential disasters in a place must be passed down from generation to generation to the next generation, including experience in dealing with disasters in the past can also be a provision for future disaster management.
In disaster management, Social Service plays a big role. Head of District Social Service. Pandeglang, Hj. Nuriah explained that one of the service standards for the Social Service is dealing with disasters. In addition to providing assistance in the emergency response phase, The Social Service also plays a role in disaster preparedness by procuring social granaries in 13 point, one of them is in Sumur District, Line. Pandeglang. In addition, there are also Disaster Preparedness Villages and Tagana which are actively involved in every phase of disaster management.
Next, Bappeda Kab. Pandeglang, represented by Mrs. Tri in the Infrastructure and Regional Planning division, revealed that Bappeda had made a development plan that also related to mitigation.. In the Regional Spatial Planning document (RTRW) Line. Tangerang has listed various hazard zones and evacuation routes. In terms of preparedness, district government. Pandeglang also has a flood disaster contingency plan document, but not yet for other disaster threats.
Grace Zultika, as Secretary of the Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) Line. Pandeglang said that pre-disaster prevention and mitigation efforts are important for the survival of people living in disaster-prone zones.. Community organization in the pre-disaster period is very important and will be useful when a disaster occurs. One of those organizations is by making a Contingency Plan (Rencon) in a disaster-prone village. BPBD Kab. Pandeglang is very eager to make Contingency Plan Documents for other disasters such as earthquakes, tsunami, but again hampered by the availability of funds. Collaboration between parties is expected to be able to answer existing challenges. The heavy rain turned bright when this discussion ended. The bright sky at Tanjung Lesung Beach Hotel and Villa seems to have happened because of the enthusiasm of the people who are constantly learning and trying to understand and apply the knowledge of disaster risk reduction obtained to jointly realize the theme leave no one behind. (LS)
