Indonesian YEH Hold Landslide Disaster Simulation

Padangekspres.net-NGO of Youth Eradicating Hunger (YEH) Indonesia held a simulation of early warning, evacuation, and disaster management as landslides, in Solok, West Sumatera, on Monday (26/12).

Chairman of West Sumatera Indonesia Chapter YEH, Bgd Fajar Rusvan Rasjid in Padang, on Thursday, said the simulation was held in Aie Ampuah, Jorong Kayu Aro, Nagari Aia Dingin, followed Solok units and standby forum to disasters in the region.

These actions are part of the implementation program of community-based disaster risk reduction (PRBBK) in this area that have entered the stage of independent caretaker unit and forums that are alert to the disaster.



Through these activities, he added, and the units are expected to alert a forum to be able to better understand disaster early warning, evacuation, and disaster management as landslides.

The units and standby forum in Jorong Koto Baru and Jorong Kayu Aro which follow the simulation is expected to reduce disaster risk in the event of landslides in each region.

West Sumatera is one of the landslide-prone areas partly because of the topography of this province is hilly and high rainfall during the rainy season.

In addition, landslides occurred in West Sumatra since the earthquake shocks such as 7.9-magnitude earthquake occurred on September 30, 2009.

In the disaster, three villages (village level, red) in the Padang Pariaman District landslides and caused hundreds of deaths and hundreds of homes and buildings owned by the community participate buried. (* / wij)