East Kalimantan BPBD and East Kutai BPBD provide technical guidance on disaster emergency response with focus on assessing post-disaster needs, rehabilitation, and reconstruction plans.
Heaptalk, Jakarta — The East Kalimantan Province Regional Agency for Disaster Management (BPBD) in collaboration with the East Kutai Regency BPBD organized technical guidance and document preparation on the Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (Jitupasna) and the Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Plan (R3PB).
The activity which is held for four days on May 22-25, 2023 takes place at the Royal Victoria Sangatta Hotel, East Kutai. Participants are 30 employees in related agencies within the Government of East Kutai Regency.
In his opening remarks, East Kutai Regent Ardiansyah Sulaiman expressed the importance of understanding disaster emergency response as an essential instrument in every region. This can assist the government in formulating steps to overcome problems that occur, especially in disaster-prone areas.
“We are grateful for this technical guidance, it should have been implemented some time ago as we just issued a regional disaster response related to the flood disaster some time ago,” said Ardiansyah.
The disaster left homework for the local government that had to be resolved immediately. One of them is the formation of an assessment team consisting of employees in related agencies/technical institutions/non-technical institutions whose task is to carry out rapid disaster and disaster impact assessment activities during the emergency response.
Further, Ardiansyah voiced, “Participants who attend this technical assistance will also be part of the regency disaster assessment team.” He hopes that the activity can be a provision for all staff in issuing policies related to regional disaster response that is in accordance with procedures and does not violate applicable laws.
Meanwhile, the Head of the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Division of the East Kalimantan BPBD, Andi Wahyudi, said that rehabilitation and reconstruction are part of disaster management which requires a comprehensive assessment process of damage and losses as well as needs, both physical and human.
According to Andi, this prompted the implementation of technical guidance which presented speakers namely the Deputy for Rehabilitation and Reconstruction from the National Agency for Disaster Countermeasure (BNPB).
