Four Presidential Directives for Improving Disaster Management in Indonesia
Background According to the Head of BNPB (Indonesian Disaster Management Agency), Lieutenant General Doni Monardo, there were 3.523 disaster occurrences in 2020. It means, around 9 disasters were happened everyday. The impact of those events were staggering. It caused 1.183 people died and 22,8 bilion rupiahs per year for the economic losses. Those numbers shows that nobody can face the disaster alone. Especially when we are dealing with the current event, namely COVID-19 pandemic while at the same time various disasters are also happened. However, Doni, said that Indonesia shows the ability to handle both disaster and pandemic impacts with the effort for recovering the economy. It has been a year now since the first case of COVID-19 were announced in Indonesia. This can be a good momentum for evaluating the whole process in managing the pandemic and disasters. This is the time for examining the good work, and sharing success stories, while at the same time and improving the disast