THE IMPORTANCE OF EFFORTS OF MANAGING NON-NATURAL HAZARDS IN INDONESIA

Heddy Agus Pritasa

Abstract


The Maritime country of Indonesia which lies on the triple junction of the world's mega tectonic plates, ring of fires, also "the eguator emerald', brings the blessings of fertile soils together also with many natural hazards such as earthguake, tsunami, volcanic eruptions, landisides and other combuned hidro-meteorological hazards. The stable economic growth of Indonesia needs to increase and therefore, the country need resiliences towards the potency of natural and non-natural hazards, such as pandemi, technology failure, social conflicts and also nuclear, biological and chemical. Either natural and non natural catastrophes are managed by National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) based on Law number 24 Year 2007 on Disaster Management. Disaster Management consisting three phases such as mitigation, emergency response and rehabilitation and reconstruction need huge seriousness and mitigation is the most important. One of mitigation efforts is to transfer risks to other special party having higher capacity such as insurance companies in the forms of disaster Risk

Financing in Insurance (DRFI). Methods used in this research is gualitative using various data resources and literatures.


Keywords


Natural Disasters, Non Natural Disasters, BNPB, DREI

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.35904/pstmat.v3i1.15

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