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Disaster Management Law in Indonesia: From Response to Preparedness?

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Indonesia is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries. However, it has not traditionally allocated sufficient resources to disaster prevention and mitigation activities, focusing instead on disaster response. Much progress has been made, inspired largely by the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami and several subsequent earthquakes elsewhere in Indonesia. In 2007, a new Disaster Management Law was enacted. It shifted the paradigm in disaster management towards prevention and mitigation, and required the establishment of a national Disaster Management Authority and Regional Disaster Management Authorities. The Law is a significant advance, but many problems remain, including the overlapping jurisdictions of the central and regional governments as well as difficulties in coordinating disaster management activities. These must be overcome to prevent avoidable loss of life and property resulting from natural and human-made disasters.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    news.com.au (2009).

  2. 2.

    Guerin (2006). See Samadhi (2013), in this volume.

  3. 3.

    Prevention Web (undated). The World Risk Index notes that worldwide in 2002–2011, 4,130 disasters occurred, causing more than a million deaths and economic losses of at least US$1.195 trillion: Jakarta Globe (2012).

  4. 4.

    Jakarta Globe (2012).

  5. 5.

    Muryanto and Susanto (2012).

  6. 6.

    Wahlstrom (2011).

  7. 7.

    Wahlstrom (2011).

  8. 8.

    Muryanto and Susanto (2012).

  9. 9.

    Muryanto and Susanto (2012).

  10. 10.

    All translations in this chapter are my own unless indicated.

  11. 11.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 795.

  12. 12.

    For illuminating coverage of this event, see Winchester (2005).

  13. 13.

    World Bank (2011).

  14. 14.

    James (2008).

  15. 15.

    Davies et al. (2011).

  16. 16.

    Davies et al. (2011).

  17. 17.

    McMichael (2009), p. 80.

  18. 18.

    McMichael (2009), p. 80.

  19. 19.

    Davies et al. (2011).

  20. 20.

    McMichael (2009).

  21. 21.

    Government Regulation 14 of 2007; Government Regulation 48 of 2008.

  22. 22.

    Jakarta Post (2012b).

  23. 23.

    Established by Presidential Decree 111 of 2001.

  24. 24.

    Government of Indonesia (undated), p. 6.

  25. 25.

    These included the Ministries of Energy and Minerals, Social Affairs, Health, Public Works, Finance, Transportation, Commerce and Information, and the Armed Forces Commander, the Chief of the National Police, and the Chairman of the Red Cross: Kusumasari and Quamrul (2012), p. 764.

  26. 26.

    UNDP and BNPB (undated), p. 6.

  27. 27.

    Kusumasari and Quamrul (2012), p. 765.

  28. 28.

    Law No. 24 of 2007 on Disaster Management.

  29. 29.

    See also Government Regulation No. 22 of 2008 on Disaster Aid Financing and Management, Government Regulation No. 23 of 2008 on Participation of International Institutions and Foreign Non-governmental Organisations in Disaster Management, and Presidential Regulation 8 of 2008 on National Disaster Management Authority.

  30. 30.

    Established by Presidential Decree No. 8 of 2008.

  31. 31.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 784.

  32. 32.

    Government of Indonesia (undated), p. 75.

  33. 33.

    Government of Indonesia (2011), p. 30.

  34. 34.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 784.

  35. 35.

    Government of Indonesia (2011), p. 5.

  36. 36.

    BBC (2009).

  37. 37.

    Bachelard (2013).

  38. 38.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 784.

  39. 39.

    Butt and Lindsey (2012), p. 62.

  40. 40.

    Butt (2010).

  41. 41.

    Butt (2012).

  42. 42.

    Home Affairs Minister Decree No. 46 of 2008 required the establishment of BPBDs in all provinces by the end of 2009.

  43. 43.

    Jakarta Post (2012a).

  44. 44.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 788.

  45. 45.

    Jakarta Post (2009).

  46. 46.

    Jawa Pos (2012).

  47. 47.

    Government of Indonesia (2011), pp. 9–10.

  48. 48.

    Government of Indonesia (2011), p. 33.

  49. 49.

    Djalante et al. (2012), pp. 790–91.

  50. 50.

    See, for example, Jakarta Bylaw 7 of 2010.

  51. 51.

    Jakarta Post (2011).

  52. 52.

    Djalante et al. (2012), p. 788.

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Butt, S. (2014). Disaster Management Law in Indonesia: From Response to Preparedness?. In: Butt, S., Nasu, H., Nottage, L. (eds) Asia-Pacific Disaster Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39768-4_9

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