PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - Acting Governor of West Java Bey Machmudin accompanied Vice President Kyai Ma'ruf Amin when opening the 2024 National Disaster Management Coordination Meeting (RAKORNAS PB) at the Pullman Hotel, Bandung City, Wednesday (24/4/2024).

Bey Machmudin attended the National Coordination Meeting until the end. The Acting Governor received several directions from Vice President Kyai Ma'ruf regarding natural disasters which in 2023 will be dominated by hydrometeorological disasters.

In his direction, the Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia said that all stakeholders must work together to innovate in providing technology that can detect disasters. Not only that, he also said that the technology provided by human intelligence is very useful for monitoring potential disasters.

"Artificial intelligence technology will be useful for monitoring potential disasters, developing early warning systems, increasing disaster mitigation capacity, and minimizing disaster risks," said Vice President Kyai Ma'ruf Amin.

If this can be realized by all stakeholder leaders throughout Indonesia, Ma'ruf Amin believes that disaster management can be carried out through structured mapping and integrated with technology.

"This is important to control existing disaster risks, as well as reduce the risk of new disasters," he said.

The Vice President also emphasized strengthening disaster services. This can be done through strengthening BPBD institutions in terms of authority, human resource competency, logistics and equipment. Then the next direction is to implement post-disaster policies and recovery efforts.

"To ensure that there is a proportional distribution of roles between the Center and the regions, in order to build community resilience and independence and reduce the risk of disasters in the future," he added.

In order to make everything happen, Ma'ruf Amin asked regional governments to collaborate with the Central Government in financing schemes for dealing with disasters.

"I ask that a disaster management financing scheme be implemented to overcome the gap in disaster management budgets in the regions. One way this can be done is through utilizing the Joint Disaster Management Fund for regions, which is adjusted to the level of risk," concluded Ma'ruf Amin.