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What about logistics needs? tion for us. As the Chief Ex- all officers in the field, as sonnel.
ecutive (Kalak) of the BPBD much as it motivated the
Our logistics is assisted by I myself need to do an eval- officials of Jakarta Provin- How far has BPBD’s efforts
several SKPs. Besides BPBD, uation. cial Government (Pemprov been made in preventing
DKI).
floods?
there are logistics from the
TOP REPORT Social Service who prepared What should BPBD do in How do you do the coordi- started with the process of
dealing with disasters?
Our efforts has been
fast foods for the refugees,
nation?
Health Service who prepared
anticipation, mitigation, re-
medicines. Assistance also
BPBD has a coordi-
I used my network
came from various social in-
of that, as the head of the
effort. In relation to miti-
stitutions. nating function. Because when I was serving as the sponse and post-disaster
BPBD executive I must be Head of the Fire Service. gation prevention there
Besides SKPD, are there any able to coordinate with all We have also established were structural mitigations
institutions that help BPBD? parties, through various good relations with the phases such as dredging,
approaches. There is this head of the SKPD. As far as embankment installation,
There were many com- authority given to me to co- possible I tried to be friend- early warning installation.
munity institutions who ordinate. It is given by the ly with them. So that if it’s While non-structural phas-
helped us. They gave support, law, as the chief executive. like a friend, the coordina- es such as socialization and
start from logistics, to evacu- tion would be better. Not preparing flood maps for
ation process with their own Does that mean it needs to formal, but informal. flood-affected areas.
means. build relationships with all
parties? Besides coordinating, What about the community
How does BPBD cope with what other efforts are be- participation in preventing
the floods? I think so, must build ing made? floods?
relationships with all walks
In coping the flood we col- of life. We need to build a We have also built flood Community’s behavior
laborate with all stakehold- collaboration that is close- preparation posts, from the must support the concept of
ers. We invited them to over- ly intertwined. We must village, sub-district, mayor disaster management. One
12 come the flood together. We maintain that. Because this to provincial government of them is to not throw gar- 13
also mobilize the concern of task is not light. But I must level. Every post has the bages in to the rivers and
Head of DKI Jakarta BPBD, Subejo : corporations and numbers carry out this mandate SOP. There were guide on promote healthy lifestyle.
of community institutions to from God. I will do what I what the flood preparation What should be done in the
posts in village level should
can. As the chief execu-
“Collaboration with who are affected by the flood. tive, I must be able to coor- do, etc. future to prevent flooding
care about helping people
dinate the BPBD staff to be
in Jakarta?
We accommodate and chan-
Stakeholders” nel their assistance transpar- faster, responsive and pro- Where are the Flood Prep- In the future, there will
active.
aration Posts?
ently and accountably.
How important it is to do col- Do you agree that Jakarta Flood alert posts have be arrangement in the up-
stream to downstream ar-
laboration to manage disas- flood handling is consid- been formed in various re- eas, systemically. We must
xtreme rain that flushed Ja- by extreme rain that occurred in Halim ing we were focused on 25 villages, as ter? ered fast? gions, especially in areas build systems, including
karta and its surrounding ar- area. The rainfall reached 337 mm/ in the last two years, the flood lasted that have the potential to water management sys-
Eeas in early January has caused day, which classified as high, and in- for two days. I guess, collaboration is In my opinion, this was flood. tems. For example, we will
flooding in numbers of Jakarta areas. undated many areas of Jakarta in important in disaster man- all thanks to the collabora- build reservoir in the up-
BPBD has done moves from evacu- short period of time. But it receded What about the evacuation process agement, as it is a collective tion, coordination and co- What should be improved stream areas so it wont get
ation process to helping people after quickly, so it didnt disrupt public facili- for the victims? work. All stakeholders should operation as well as the from the BPBD? flooded whenever the rain
flooding. What has BPBD done in han- ties. It wont cause flooding if the rain cooperate so it will ease the structurally and intensively comes. There will also a
dling Jakarta’s flood? We have inter- were light or moderate. Alhamdulillah, it went well. In- process. direction of the leadership In the future we will in- normalization and natural-
viewed the Head of Jakarta’s Disaster deed, there were many evacuation so the Jakarta floods can crease the capacity of my ization, and it will need a
Management Agency (BPBD), Subejo. Which areas are potential for flood- requests. There is a queuing for the Do you think that the flood be handled quickly. More- staff. We must build their joint commitment between
ing? use of inflatable boats. But we had in- management was good as over, the Governor and the mindsets as well as the the central and region-
What do you think has triggered the formed the locations to the officers expected? Regional Secretary moni- solidarity. So they will be al government. If it is done
flood? We have mapped the area of po- and they had evacuated all areas. If tored the developments ev- accustomed to working successfully, I believe that
tential flooding. There are 82 villages there was any delay in evacuation pro- I am sure that there are ery day and provided direc- in emergency situations. in the future, Jakarta will be
I believed that the flood which hit that are categorized as flood-prone cess, it still covered according to the still shortages in handling the tion to all levels of staffs. Those are the required free of flooding.
Jakarta in early January were caused areas. But at the time of the last flood- queue. floods. That will be an evalua- That would encouraged competency of every per- bam