Education became an important entry point to build a caring community in disaster risk reduction.
The frequency of climate and weather-related disasters in Indonesia has been increasing in the last 10 years. Climate change is often the scapegoat. However, actual environmental management mistakes played a major role towards increasing the frequency bencana.Kajian National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) in 2011 states, the trend of disasters in Indonesia increased from year to year.
If in 2002 only recorded 190 disasters, in 2010 there were 930 incidents. In fact, the 2009 incident occurred 1954 incidents. Total disaster, nearly 79 percent is hydro-meteorological disasters, ie weather-related disasters and climate. These disasters include floods, drought, landslide, tornado, forest and land fires, as well as high tide .
The frequency of hydro-meteorological disasters in Indonesia, which recorded 134 incidents. Year 2010 to 736 incidents. In the year 2009 soared to 1234 kejadian. This Increase in the frequency also impact and extent of hydro-meteorological disasters has increased. The number of hydro-meteorological disaster victims in Indonesia that killed over the last eight years to reach 4936 people, as many as 17.7 million people are suffering and displaced, hundreds of thousands of homes were damaged, and more than 2.5 million homes inundated.
The number of these victims is relatively small compared to deaths from geological disasters, like earthquakes and tsunamis, which ranges from 200,000 people in the period sama.Dalam report Global Humanitarian Forum (The Anatomy of Silent Crisis, 2009) mentioned, hydro-meteorological disasters will be the biggest threat humans in the coming years. The report candidly pointed to climate change as penyebabnya.Benarkah increase in hydro-meteorological disasters caused by climate change only? Report Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) shows, the global climate has changed. Effect of climate change causing changes in rainfall patterns.
