Regional Collaboration and Local Action Key to Global Disaster Resilience

RRI.CO.ID, Jakarta – Efforts to strengthen global disaster resilience require close collaboration, ranging from the regional level to concrete actions in local areas. This important issue became the main discussion at The 3rd Global Forum for Sustainable Resilience (GFSR) held in Jakarta on Thursday, September 10, 2026.

Head of Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Division ASEAN Secretariat, Riyanti Djalante, emphasized the importance of aligning regional disaster priorities with the global agenda. Riyanti stressed that a country's experience in dealing with disasters is very valuable to share and serve as a reference for the global community.

Riyanti said, “We have, of course, the responsibility to ensure or to work together to ensure and build resilience in the country, but for me, I don't think it's enough or it's sufficient. We also have, I think, the responsibility to ensure our vision and ensure that the lessons learned that we have achieved or we have built within the country can also shared globally.”

In addition to commitments at the regional and global levels, alignment efforts are also being carried out domestically. Director of Spatial Planning, Urban Affairs, Land, and Disaster Management at the Ministry of National Development Planning/Bappenas, Dody Sinaga, conveyed the importance of aligning global commitments into Indonesia's development planning framework.

In the 2025–2029 National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) document, disaster risk management is positioned under the Priority Program "Effective and Efficient Disaster Risk Management" with the primary indicator of reducing the Disaster Risk Index (IRB). Dody emphasized that achieving this indicator is impossible for just one ministry and requires cross-sectoral cooperation.

“So, each indicator not only conducted by one ministry or one institution. So, cross-sector, cross-ministry, cross-institution have together to achieve that indicator in accordance with their function. So, not only BNPB, Disaster Management National Authority, not only Ministry of Infrastructure, but all sector that has function to achieve the indicator have to formulate the activity, the project in each year, how to achieve the target,” Dody said.

The implementation of The 3rd GFSR officially concluded with an agreement to turn global commitments into real actions at the local level. The next step is to transform this pilot approach into national policy supported by sustainable budgeting.