JAMBI - Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono said the government is considering to give awards to regions for their preparations to anticipate natural disasters.
"So the preparations can be the extent to which the (local) governments have trained the people (to face natural disasters) and the extent to which the people have been prepared for disasters," he said on the sidelines of a working visit in Tanjung Jabung Barat, Jambi province, on Sunday.
The awards are called adipura. Regions that had prepared anticipatory steps to deal with disasters would deserve to receive the awards. The preparations also included guidance to evacuate natural disaster victims, he said.
He asked each region to optimize the function of their regional natural disaster mitigation boards (BPBD). The regions must have maps of disaster-prone areas, such as tsunami-prone areas in the western coast of Sumatra, the southern coast of Java, and the northern part of Papua.
In addition, each region must have training programs to anticipate disasters. Each disaster-prone region must also build paths to evacuate victims.
Jambi Governor Hasan Basri Agus said the local authorities had proposed construction of paths to evacuate victims. "We have proposed it to the National Disaster Mitigation Board," he said.
He said the local authorities would build two paths to evacuate disaster victims. The first one was path leading to Tuo hamlet. The path would be linked to Jangkat, Merangin district and the other was a path leading to Bengkulu from Masqo village, Gunung Raya subdistrict.
source : kompas.com
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