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The importance of disaster management training in disaster management in Indonesia

In Indonesia, disasters continue to strike in all areas, both natural disasters in the form of flash floods, severe earthquakes, landslides and hurricanes that ravage residents, casualties, housing and all the surrounding environment. Also the outbreak of the corona virus disease 19 spreads with many fatalities, paralyzing all community activities, crippling the economy, poverty and the psychological impact of society. In Indonesia, disaster anticipation gets support from the central government with the establishment of a national disaster management, disaster management by the central government, the business world and others, in the form of assistance to local governments, efforts including emergency management, financial assistance and extreme assistance if assistance cannot be maintained even though requires expensive, unaffordable costs, for example helicopter assistance to facilitate distribution and delivery.

The regional head is fully responsible for disaster management for all impacts caused by disasters in the work area. determining the status of a disaster emergency is carried out by the head of the region experiencing a disaster so that immediate action is taken to facilitate the disaster management process. Determination of disaster status by the regional head immediately is very important to start the process of handling and repairing civil rights, such as lost or damaged securities, recoveries and other measures.

In addition, during a disaster emergency response, it is necessary to establish command posts and structures as well as working groups. The speed of forming a post after a disaster occurs immediately immediately forms an integrated post by the regional head in a place that allows it to be safe from follow-up disasters, which is useful for helping between parties participating in disaster management. In one disaster management team, they formed a working group in the SAR, logistics, evacuation, education, early recovery, economic, infrastructure and health sectors. And designated as the responsible institution in each working group. Emergency handling in every event, place and time has its own uniqueness which has different conditions and special problems, of course there will be innovations or new strategies in every disaster event, learn from experience, this requires direction from the Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) to provide new strategies for the visited communities. In the last two years the impact of natural disasters and the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia. BNPB’s policies in the last two years include waiting for housing for those who are built at home waiting while waiting for the house to be rebuilt.

Training Must Preempt Disasters must be implemented by conducting disaster training to improve preparedness, this training aims to increase disaster preparedness and reduce disaster risk. With more frequent training, we become aware of the readiness of personnel and the community when a disaster occurs, then what is lacking and what needs to be maintained.

The concept of disaster management has changed from response when a disaster occurs to disaster mitigation. reduce disaster risk which has the core of increasing preparedness through training. The training provided is not only limited to material, but also practical in the field which is divided into several stages, giving materials, simulations and rehearsals in the field. The training is not only for the Regional Disaster Management Agency or the apparatus, but all parties in pentahelix must receive this training.