GOVERNMENT/UN/NGO/DONOR/RED CROSS COORDINATION MEETING
SUMMARY MEETING NOTE
Graha BNPB, 06 October 2015 at 10:00 – 12:00
1. WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS
After opening the meeting and welcoming participants, Mr. Willem Rampangilei, the new Head of BNPB,
explained that BNPB welcomes further collaboration from the international community in order to
implement the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN 2015-2019) where GoI has allocated
funding for disaster risk reduction and laid out strategic goals for development in the country within the next
four years. He pointed out that key challenges in DRR mainstreaming relate to unequal levels of
understanding among ministries on DRR issues and thus unevenness in budgeting for and programming of
DRR mainstreaming as part of their work..
He drew the attention of the meeting to a number of strategic issues stipulated in the RPJMN:
 Identifying ways to reduce the risk index in disaster prone areas,
 developing institutional capacity to manage disaster risks at all levels of administration
 accelerating the mainstreaming of disaster risk management across all pillars of society,
 developing a national multi hazard early warning system,
 building up national and sub-national emergency logistics centres,
 refining the national DRR policy framework to mainstream DRR in development,
 moving ahead with the development of the national response framework, and a national legal
framework for forest fire management.
In closing he emphasized that disaster management is complex and borderless and therefore encouraged all
stakeholders to work together.
2. SECURITY UPDATE - UNDSS
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Reports of increased cybercrimes targeting international organizations and business communities, misuse
of the UN name and emblem by the so-called UNWHF purporting to be a UN agency based in
Indonesia.
The Jakarta Police reportedly increased measures to prevent violence among youths in Jakarta.
3. HUMANITARIAN UPDATE - OCHA
Between January and September 2015, there had been 1,194 disaster events. BNPB reported that in
September 2015 alone, 34 disasters occurred with whirlwind and flood being the most frequent.
Approximately 18,645 persons were affected by disasters, with around 15,495 persons affected by floods.
(i) Earthquake
An earthquake occurred with a magnitude of 6.8 Richter scale and at a depth of 10 kilometers on 25
September 2015 at 00:53 local time (USGS reported 6.6 RS magnitude). The epicenter was 31
kilometres northeast of Sorong City of West Papua Province, as recorded by BMKG (the Meteorology,
Climatology and Geophysics Agency). The intensity level was recorded up to V MMI in Sorong City
(Modified Mercalli Intensity, scale between I and XII). BNPB reported 45 people injured including two
seriously injured. While the damage and loss assessment was ongoing, BNPB reported 2,889 damaged
building in Sorong Municipality (84% out of total damaged building), Sorong District (14%) and Raja
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Ampat District (2%). No displacement caused by this earthquake.
(ii) Floods
At least 262 people were temporarily displaced due to flash flood in Bener Meriah District of Nanggroe
Aceh Darussalam Province on 13 September. The flashflood also caused damaged at various level to 25
houses.
(iii) Volcanic eruption
Mt. Sinabung continued its activities during the month. Its big eruption on 15 September spewed
volcanic dust up to 3,000 meters and pyroclastic flow reached around 4,000 meters toward eastsoutheast. Compared with the beginning of September, the IDP figures by end of September had slightly
increased to 9,536 people (2,615 HHs), located in 9 locations within Kabanjahe area. Most of them had
been displaced since 3 June 2015, as the alert level increased to the highest level.
4. UPDATE ON FOREST FIRE EMERGENCY RESPONSE - BNPB
BNPB provided an overview of the latest situation as follows:
 Six provinces were affected (Riau, Jambi, South Sulawesi, West Kalimantan, Southeast Kalimantan
and South Kalimantan) with limited visibility range up to only 100 m. The highest number of hotspot
were in South Sumatera (466 spots).
 The air quality (Air Pollution Standard Index) showed that Palembang had the most dangerous air
quality with the index of 688, followed by Jambi (642) and Pekanbaru (434). [Good air quality is in
the range of 0-50].
 The highest number of people with acute respiratory infections was in Riau (34,846 people).
 The efforts of GoI included mobilizing 19 helicopters and two air tractors for water bombing; planes
for artificial rains, as well as mobilizing thousands of personnel from the military, police, BPBD,
Manggala Agni, and volunteers.
 On law enforcement, there were now 206 suspects (195 from individual person and 11 from
corporations) being handled.
5. UPDATE ON EL NINO - FAO
The current strong El Nino looked set to continue, possibly into early 2016. Based on experience, it was
likely that it would be followed by strong La Nina, in 2016-2017. The short term impacts on agriculture,
water, health, nutrition and economy needed to be urgently understood. At household level, millions of
livelihoods either had been or would be affected. Rising food prices required close monitoring. Poor urban
households may be heavily impacted by price fluctuations. Access to clean drinking water was a major
concern that may affect large populations, while reduced diet quality was indicated to be a significant issue
due to high levels of chronic (stunting) and acute (wasting) malnutrition. Short, medium and long-term
impacts of El Nino should be continuously analyzed.
Follow up actions:
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It was crucial that all sectors exchange information to mitigate negative impact of El-Nino.
The UN was ready to provide technical assistance to the GOI to prepare, mitigate, and respond. Such
assistance could include:
o Price monitoring (FAO, WFP, Global Pulse)
o Nutritional monitoring (UNICEF, WHO, WFP)
o Environmental concerns (UNORCID, UNDP/FAO/UNEP)
o Analytical studies on multiple impacts (UNCT, including WB, IMF, ADB)
o Analysis on impact on most vulnerable populations
o Analysis of possible impact of La Nina (2016-2017)
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6. ANY OTHER BUSINESS
(i) Contact Management System (Humanitarian.id)
Humanitarian ID is a global contact list management for everyone working in humanitarian crises and
disasters by using application that is accessible from desktop, laptop and mobile device (future features).
This new approach allows humanitarian workers to manage their contact information and easily find key
contacts in a particular emergency. It is designed with security and privacy considerations. Meeting
participants were encouraged to sign up to the site http://humanitarian.id and provide feedback on its
functionality at http://humanitarian.id/#contact.
(ii) DRR Month
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Month is an annual event since 2013 that the GoI had been
commemorating, as a commitment to support UNISDR’s global campaign. With the theme of Disaster
Risk Reduction for Sustainable Development, the commemoration this year would be held in Solo
Regency of Central Java, from 16-18 October 2015. It was expected that more than 4,000 people will
participate to:
1) Enhance understanding of DRR in Indonesia;
2) Exchange information on DRR among regions and institutions;
3) Formulate Indonesia’s concept to be brought to AMCDRR event in New Delhi 2016; and
4) Affirm the “Solo Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction”.
Three working sessions were planned, as well as 24 special sessions, and eight side events, including a
special session to develop recommendations for preventing land and forest fires, to be hosted by the
Association of Indonesian Disaster Experts (IABI). Participants were requested to contact the organizing
committee to receive an invitation to these events, at panitia@peringatanbulanprb.net, fax no. +62 21
29618777. All information is available on www.peringatanbulanprb.net.
(iii) Ambon Simulation Exercise
Following the Mentawai Megathrust Disaster Relief Exercise in 2014, BNPB informed the meeting that
it would be conducting a table-top-exercise for national level in Maluku Province at the end of
November 2015. The exercise will be continued in 2016 by an international level exercise, with the
purpose to test the interplay between national and international mechanisms for emergency response, the
roll out of the East Asia Summit tool kit and operationalizing the ASEAN SASOP. BNPB was
developing a scientific-based tsunami scenario for these exercises. BNPB invited the international
community to support the exercise as planners. For the international level exercise, BNPB would need
to coordinate with regional entities to avoid overlapping events. A firm date for the international
exercise would be forthcoming in due course.
(iv) Progress of GoI National Cluster
BNPB recognised that progresses was being made on four national clusters (Health, Education,
Displacement and Protection, and Logistics) while the other four national clusters had been facing
difficulties in rolling out the initiative due to merging of ministries and turnover of government
officials. With greater post-election stability it was considered timely to bring cluster leads (both
national and international) together. BNPB confirmed that it would convene an inter-cluster
coordination meeting after DRR month commemoration to explain the national cluster arrangement to
new faces, as well as to discuss the progress and challenges. The BNPB Secretary-General also
informed the meeting that the Agency is developing the Head of BNPB regulation to guide the
development of the cluster coordination mechanism.
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(v) ASEAN Chairmanship on Disaster Management
The representative of the ASEAN Secretariat congratulated GoI progress on disaster management and
affirmed its continuing commitment to support the GoI which will assume Chairmanship of ASEAN
Disaster Management chairmanship in 2016.
09 October 2015
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