Pemprov Papua Dorong Penguatan Kapasitas Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah Papua Provincial Government Calls for Stronger Local Disaster Management Capacity
JAYAPURA - Kepala Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (BPBD) Papua, Robert L.N. Awi mengatakan, kapasitas penanggulangan bencana di sejumlah kabupaten/kota di Papua masih perlu diperkuat. Salah satu aspek yang menjadi perhatian adalah dukungan penganggaran bagi BPBD di masing-masing daerah. Robert L.N. Awi, head of the Papua Regional Disaster Management Agency, said disaster management capacity in several regencies and cities in Papua still needed to be strengthened. One area requiring attention was funding for local disaster management agencies.
“Anggaran mereka hanya Rp200 juta, bagaimana mau menanggulangi bencana dengan anggaran sekecil itu,” tegasnya.
Robert menekankan, penguatan kapasitas penanggulangan bencana merupakan tanggung jawab bersama antara pemerintah daerah, pemerintah provinsi dan pemerintah pusat. Namun, dukungan anggaran di tingkat kabupaten/kota perlu menjadi perhatian kepala daerah.
Selain penganggaran, penguatan regulasi juga menjadi bagian penting dalam meningkatkan kapasitas daerah. Robert menyebut, Kota Jayapura dan Kabupaten Jayapura telah memiliki peraturan daerah tentang penanggulangan bencana, sedangkan sejumlah daerah lainnya masih menggunakan peraturan bupati.
“Kota Jayapura dan Kabupaten Jayapura sudah memiliki peraturan daerah, tapi yang lainnya masih berupa peraturan bupati. Ini masih belum kuat, harus ditingkatkan menjadi peraturan daerah baru bisa,” ujarnya.
Menurutnya, keberadaan regulasi yang lebih kuat akan memberikan landasan bagi pemerintah daerah dalam menentukan pola penanganan bencana, termasuk pembagian peran dan tanggung jawab masing-masing pihak.
“Nanti di dalam peraturan daerah baru bagaimana pola-pola penanganan bencana diurai di sana,” katanya. ***
JAYAPURA – Robert L.N. Awi, head of the Papua Regional Disaster Management Agency, said disaster management capacity in several regencies and cities in Papua still needed to be strengthened. One area requiring attention was funding for local disaster management agencies.
“Their budget is only IDR 200 million. How can they manage disasters with such a small budget?” he stressed.
Robert emphasized that strengthening disaster management capacity was a shared responsibility of regency, city, provincial and central governments. However, funding at the regency and city levels required greater attention from local government leaders.
In addition to adequate funding, stronger regulations were essential to improving local capacity. Robert said Jayapura City and Jayapura Regency already had regional regulations on disaster management, while several other areas still relied on regulations issued by regents.
“Jayapura City and Jayapura Regency already have regional regulations, but the others still only have regent regulations. That is not yet strong enough; these need to be upgraded to regional regulations,” he said.
According to Robert, stronger regulations would provide a foundation for local governments to establish disaster response arrangements, including clearly defined roles and responsibilities for each party.
“The disaster response arrangements can then be set out in those regional regulations,” he said. ***
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