The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) and the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) will implement the Indonesia Disaster Resilience Initiatives Project (IDRIP) in 25 provinces facing a high risk of tsunami this year.
While reading the opening remarks from BNPB’s prevention deputy Prasinta Dewi at a webinar on Wednesday, the agency’s early warning director Afrial Rosya said that IDRIP is related to earthquake and tsunami mitigation.
The World Bank-funded project aims to bolster the readiness of regional governments and people through mitigation, readiness, and early warning efforts for confronting the threat of earthquake and tsunami.
The IDRIP project will cover the entire tsunami high-risk regions in 25 provinces, 167 districts or cities, and two thousand villages.
It will be executed by two different institutions, namely the BNPB and BMKG, and both will have a different focus.
BMKG will focus more on procuring monitoring instruments and devices, while BNPB will be more oriented toward people-based mitigation, readiness, and early warning efforts.
The activities conducted under the program will comprise developing disaster resilient villages in two thousand villages and installing more than 8,600 evacuation signs in 860 villages.
In addition, they will include strengthening the Disaster Mitigation Operation Control Center’s (Pusdalops’) facility and infrastructure capacity and designing contingency plans for 105 districts or cities.
Lastly, they will involve installing tsunami early warning sirens and developing an integrated early warning system at the central level.
“It is expected that there will be initiatives that can provide a significant contribution in reducing Indonesia’s disaster risk index,” Rosya noted.
He said he expected that all plans and initiations carried out within the next 2–3 years under the INDRIP project will receive support from regional governments, especially the Regional Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) that is responsible for each region.
Earlier, through a written statement on March 9, 2022, BMKG’s Dwikorita Karnawati had informed that the agency has increased the number of Warning Receiver System (WRS) New Generation across the nation.
This effort was done to strengthen the earthquake and tsunami early warning system.
Source: Antara News