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akarta is prone to disasters, including the conducted after the event of disaster: to collect of refugees handling, coordination for
flood. The city’s disaster management waste, disinfection and health checks. public kitchens, provision of facilities and
Jagency (BPBD) has detected around 82 infrastructures: building camps and providing
subdistricts are potential of having flood. Various Sigit hopes the Resilient Villages will trigger tents, mobile toilets, electric generators, ropes,
efforts has been done by the government of the community to collaboratively prepare for emergency lights and safe water tanks.
Jakarta to handle flood. But it’s not enough, the the upcoming disasters. Hence, besides in
city must also prepare the residents to face Pejagalan they will build KBT villages in RW 05 Also, West Jakarta mayor Uus Kuswanto had
any potential disasters. Therefore, provincial Sunter Agung, RW 03 Pegangsaan Dua, RW 04 selected Rawa Buaya subdistrict as Resilient
government of Jakarta initiated Disaster Tugu Selatan, RW 04 Samper Barat and RW 01 Village. He hoped, too, through KTB the residents
FLOOD Resilient Villages (KTB) program. Pademangan Barat. would get proper education on how to evacuate
ALERT when there is flooding. To support the program,
Today, model for this Disaster Resilient Village is Areas Prone to Flooding West Jakarta Fire and Rescue Agency has
currently been built in South Jakarta, precisely prepared 20 lifeboats along with 24-hour ready
in Pangadegan subdistrict. There are also South Jakarta administration also conducted officers, while the Social Agency prepared 3x4
resilient villages in Karet Tengsin subdistrict, simulation for KBT village in RW 01 Pengadegan, meter and 8x10 meter tents for residents who
Central Jakarta and Pejagalan subdistrict in Pancoran District, an area prone to floodings. need to flee their houses.
Be Alert and North Jakarta. While in East Jakarta, the village Mayor of South Jakarta Marullah Matali, who is In Central Jakarta, Kampung Tangguh Bencana
was built in Cililitan subdistrict, in Rawa Buaya
also served as Jakarta Secretary, hopes that
subdistrict in West Jakarta and lastly, in Pulau through this simulation, all public servants is located in RW 5 Karet Tengsin subdistrict.
Lancang, Thousand Island area. (ASN) in South Jakarta, also with TNI, Polri and This area was chosen as resilient village as it’s
Ready in North Jakarta Mayor Sigit Widjatmoko, when all elements in the community to be ready in often get flooded during rainy days. Central
facing the risk of disasters.
Jakarta acting mayor, Irwandi, hoped that this
being contacted by Jakita team said that they KTB program would change the paradigm in
Resilient chose RW 15 in Pejagalan as resilient village The simulation was done with the process disaster management. ros/sya
because in early 2020 the area was inundated
by high level of water. He also explained
that the development of KTB villages began
Villages with a discussion with the residents. The city
administration of North Jakarta engaged all
elements in the community to study the place
where the water comes.
Some area in Jakarta become the
model for Kampung Tangguh Bencana He mentioned the three steps for this KTB
(disaster resilient villages) in areas program: Siaga-Tanggap-Galang (Ready-
prone to flooding. Responsive-Act). The first, Siaga step will
be conducted by the city government with
all parties to arrange Standard Operating
Procedures (SOP) on anticipating and handling
disasters, including to install rain-gauges, to
place evacuation tools and other emergency
facilities such as life buoys, lifeboats and Jakarta fire and
Rescue officers
emergency lights. “We also created map of
gave evacuation
evacuation routes and shelter locations as well training for
as public kitchens for the refugees,” said Sigit. disaster victims.
In Tanggap step, they created collaborative
task force composed of the city government, Credit:
BPBD Jakarta
Indonesian Military (TNI), National Police Disaster
(Polri) and the communities. They will help the Management
evacuation and mitigation process during the Agency
event of disasters. Lastly, Galang step will be

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