Last September the Scale Indonesia team as well as Disasterchannel.co departed for Kertamukti Village, district. District wells. Pandeglang Banten. The arrival of the team to this village intends to continue the program that has been developed, namely Development of Community Based Disaster Risk Management.
The series of activities carried out are the preparation and establishment of village-based contingency plans. In this activity, we involve active community participation in order to build resilience of vulnerable groups in accordance with the social conditions of the people in the region
Contingency planning is the latest model of rapid disaster response, appropriate, effective, efficient, responsible for carrying out the mandate to protect and evacuate people exposed to disasters in an integrated manner between the government, College, media, business world, Public. The construction of logic and law is in the law, rules, SNI, global humanitarian response guidelines and systems.
Contingency Planning is a planning process for handling disaster emergency situations in certain types of hazards, in an uncertain situation, with agreed scenarios and objectives, technical and managerial measures are defined, and a mutually agreed upon potential response and deployment system for prevention, or better cope in emergency situations and be formally defined
One of the high-value disaster threats in the Sunda Strait region is the threat of an earthquake. Based on the analysis of experts, there is a term called seismic gap which is south of the Sunda Strait. Seismic gap, is a tectonically active area but very rarely experiences earthquakes for long periods of time. Major earthquakes are rarely recorded in the region seismic gap, this can result in an earthquake with a potential magnitude of 8.4 SR according to BMKG, or 9 SR according to the results of other studies.
Residents of Kertamukti Village have experienced several earthquakes and tsunamis. In an earthquake 14 January 2022 just past, several houses in this village were damaged. Therefore, Scale Indonesia initiated the creation of an earthquake disaster contingency plan in this area.
The Community Based Disaster Risk Management Development Program is carried out in several stages. Last August, the first phase of this program was carried out, namely conducting a participatory disaster risk assessment. Temporary, the second stage is in the form of making a contingency plan, done during 4 consecutive days since Monday, 19 September to 22 September 2022.
This event was attended by 30 participants from gender representatives and several walks of life guided by four facilitators. One of the village officials named Eneng Nani Sutiana considers that this event is very useful to broaden villagers' insight into disaster risks in their homes.. According to old women 35 This year the series of interesting events is the simulation or tabletop exercise.
Finally Eneng said “I hope that in the future there will be a continuation and continue to monitor the area- disaster-prone areas like Kertamukti."(LS)
