GPDRR: Indonesia offers sustainable resilience to address disaster risk

President Joko Widodo (center), UN deputy secretary-general Amina Mohammed (fourth left), vice president of Zambia W.K. Mutale Nalumango (fourth right) take a picture with the head of National Agency for Disaster Management Suharyanto (left), special representative of the secretary-general for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori (second left), coordinating minister for Human Development and Cultural Affairs Muhadjir Effendy (third left), president of the United Nations General Assembly Abdulla Shahida (third right), foreign affairs minister Retno Marsudi (second right), Bali governor Wayan Koster (right), and several delegations ahead of the opening ceremony of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) 2022 in Nusa Dua, Bali, Wednesday (May 25, 2022). The GPDRR is held in Bali, raising the theme of "From Risk to Resilience: Towards Sustainable Development for All in a COVID-19 Transformed World". ANTARA FOTO/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/foc.



KUALA LUMPUR, May 26 (Bernama) -- At the 2022 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) event, the Government of Indonesia offered the world, the concept of sustainable resilience as solution to address the challenges of systemic disaster risk.

According to a statement, Indonesian President Joko Widodo recently highlighted the concept at the opening ceremony of the 2022 GPDRR in Nusa Dua.

The sustainable resilience concept was considered a solution to tackle all forms of disasters, including facing a pandemic and concurrently supporting the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Jokowi remarked, highlighting the need to apply several measures to build sustainable resilience.

“First, we should strengthen an anticipatory, responsive, and adaptive disaster preparedness culture as well as institutions in dealing with disasters,” he said, adding that disaster mitigation education and government institutions synergistic and responsive to disasters must become a shared priority.

He explained the second measure deemed necessary was for every country to invest in science, innovation, and technology, including in ensuring access to finance and technology transfer.

On the third measure, Jokowi said was by building infrastructure resilient to disasters and climate change.

Lastly, he invited all countries to commit to implementing global agreements at the national and local levels. “The Sendai Framework, the Paris Agreement, and the SDGs are important international agreements in the efforts to reduce disaster risk and climate change. I invite all countries to be committed and serious about implementing it.”

On the occasion, several United Nations (UN) officials -- President of the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid, UN Deputy Secretary General Amina Mohammed, and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction Mami Mizutori -- lauded Indonesia on its success in controlling COVID-19, so that the 2022 GPDRR forum could be held in-person in Nusa Dua, Bali.

Indonesia hosts a series of meetings of the 7th Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) in Bali on May 23-28.

-- BERNAMA