Bimtek Disaster Preparedness for Disability

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Reporter: Yohanes Clemens

TOGETHER We can do more (CBM) in collaboration with the
National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), the Ministry of Social Affairs of
the Republic of Indonesia and the Indonesian Ministry of Health carry out
disaster advisory (Bimtek), from Monday 29 to April 30 2019, in Palu City.

Participants in the activity were devoted to women
and persons with disabilities and facilitators or assistants at home, such as
Special School teachers (SLB), from Disability Disability organizations, the
Association of Indonesian Disabled Persons (PPDI), and the Movement for
Indonesian Deaf Welfare (Gerkatin).

Indonesian CBM Country Humanitarian Manager, Tanty
S. Reinhart Thamrin was met on the sidelines of an activity in a restaurant in
Palu City on Monday (04/29/2019) revealing that the activity was part of a day
of disaster preparedness. Nationally, this activity is routinely carried out by
CBM with BNPB and all stakeholders who are active in disaster management.

She continued, the activity was more specific for
women and people with disabilities. The first reason why women, because it
realizes that information is quickly spread if educating women. Then for
persons with disabilities because in a disaster situation sometimes people
forget that our family or in the community there are friends who do not have
access as others, who are very difficult to get information about early
warnings and information regarding the correct evacuation route.

“So we initiated it, why then we chose the
City of Palu. Because by chance we did have a program here specifically for
disaster management, specifically for persons with disabilities here, so
yesterday after the tsunami our team entered it with BNPB here, with the Ministry
of Social Affairs and PPDI, so our partner is PPDI. The aim is for female
friends and people with disabilities not only to become objects but to become
subjects during disaster management efforts,” she explained.

Tanty admitted, specifically in the city of Palu
for the first time with BNPB to carry out this activity, because for him, the
CBM goal of the activity would be the entrance where BNPB wanted to make a
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to evaluate persons with disabilities to be
actively involved from planning to disaster management or emergency response.
So that his party planned the activity to be sustainable, especially seeing the
high interest of the community in participating in the activity.

Furthermore, she said, on the second day the Bimtek
will be dedicated to local governments including, National Basar, BPBD and
Social Affairs.

“Why is the local government, because we also
want to become mainstreaming, we also have to be the main in every activity
planned by friends of the Regional Government (Pemda). So understand that
Disability friends are not left behind. Local governments can contribute as
long as we teach how, so that they do not become objects but subjects,” she
added.

“We hope that more friends from local
organizations in Palu can learn techniques for managerial material with the
local government. They are also always ready for facilitating assistance,
because the CDM has prepared a team for stand bay to train offices or
communities. which requires knowledge in disaster preparedness,”

“This is a humanitarian program, so we are
always ready for it without charging,” she concluded. **

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