RRI.CO.ID, Bandung – Indonesia is promoting a shift in ASEAN’s disaster management paradigm from disaster risk reduction to sustainable resilience during its 2026 chairmanship of the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM).

Secretary-General of Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), Rustian, said the implementation of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Work Programme 2026–2030 must deliver tangible benefits to communities. He emphasized that sustainable resilience should serve as a practical, people-centered framework integrated across all sectors and the three pillars of the ASEAN Community.

“Sustainable resilience must become a practical, cross-sectoral framework for ASEAN action. In line with the ASEAN Leaders’ Declaration on Sustainable Resilience adopted in 2023, resilience must be people-centered and integrated across all sectors and the three pillars of the ASEAN Community,” Rustian said while opening the 48th ACDM and Related Meetings in Bandung, West Java, on July 28, 2026.

Indonesia also called for stronger regional preparedness and coordination through the use of data and technology, the development of early warning systems, and sustained investment to strengthen local capacities. In addition, Indonesia introduced the Early Warning Response Action (AMPD) approach to ensure that risk information is translated into coordinated actions before disasters escalate.

Meanwhile, Director General for ASEAN Cooperation at Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Ina Krisnamurthi, stressed that cooperation with ASEAN’s dialogue partners and international organizations should go beyond disaster response to building shared resilience. She noted that sustainable resilience cannot be achieved without close collaboration.

The open session of the ACDM meeting was attended by nine ASEAN external partners—Australia, Canada, the European Union, New Zealand, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Türkiye, and France—as well as five international organizations: the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), and the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).

During the meeting, ASEAN member states also encouraged greater commitments from partner countries through capacity building, the development of learning and knowledge-sharing platforms, institutional strengthening of the AHA Centre, and enhanced technical cooperation to support the implementation of the AADMER Work Programme 2026–2030.

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