Indonesian National
Army (TNI AD) for a show in order to participate Ministerial Conference in Asia
for the fifth Disaster Risk Reduction (Fifth Asian Ministerial Conference on
Disaster Risk Reduction - AMCDRR) organized by the National Disaster Management
Agency (BNPB) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on 22 to 25 October 2012.
Units representing
the Army exhibit is from the Department of the Army Information (Dispenad),
Directorate of Army Engineers (Ditziad) and the Directorate of Army Transport
Briefing (Ditbekangad).
The material is
exhibited in the form of Dispenad photo documentation, brochures and
documentary play in helping natural disaster. While from Ditziad and
Ditbekangad each featuring a water purification devices, detection devices, and
victims of natural rubber boats (LCR).
According to the Head
of Data, Information and Public Relations BNPB Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, more than
1,200 participants including 49 ministerial-level officials and high-level delegations
from Asia will come together on Tuesday (23/10) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Discussion of the impact and losses throughout the region will be the main
agenda. In 2011 and the Asian countries dominate the list of countries most
affected in the world. For example, the Philippines ranks highest with 33
reports of a major disaster, followed by China which reported 22 disaster.
From a total of 302
disaster, 137 disasters occurred in Asia and an economic loss of more than 294
billion U.S. dollars of the total estimated 366 billion U.S. dollars.
Catastrophic event extensive flooding has disrupted the livelihoods of millions
of people, especially in Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and China as well
as Indonesia itself. Conference of Asia is the first meeting of the
ministerial-level officials to consider the continuation of the approval of a
comprehensive world in disaster risk reduction, said Sutopo.
Ministerial
Conference of the Asia-to-5 is going to discuss three main themes namely,
integrating disaster risk reduction at the local level and adapting to climate
change to national development plans; assess the risks in the area and
financing, and strengthening risk governance and local partnerships.
Indonesia is the
fifth country to host the Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction after Beijing, Republic of China (2005), New Delhi, India (2007);
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2008), and Incheon, Republic of Korea (2010).
About 5th AMCDRR
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