Member of Commission II of the House of Representatives Azis Subekti supports President Prabowo Subianto's decision to form a rehabilitation and reconstruction task force as part of efforts to recover areas affected by flash floods and landslides in three provinces on the island of Sumatra.
He said the formation of this Task Force was a concrete step to accelerate post-disaster recovery in Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra.
"The disaster does not wait for the meeting to be completed. The water comes without invitation, the land moves without permission, which is tested not only for natural resilience, but for our institutional resilience," said Azis Subekti in his statement, Tuesday, December 16.
"What President Prabowo conveyed in the cabinet plenary meeting should be supported with a cool head, a wide chest and fast work. The state is present, the situation is monitored, and we enter the phase of rehabilitation and reconstruction, through a special task force or body. This is not just a sentence, this is a concrete direction of work," he continued.
The Gerindra Party politician likened the rehabilitation and reconstruction task force to a recovery machine that needed to be run, not an additional stamp, let alone just an additional institution that made government work complicated.
"As a machine person, the emergency response is rehabilitation and reconstruction of the gear. If the brakes are stepped on to prepare to press the clutch, but the teeth are not immediately raised / inserted, the recovery vehicle will be silent, the gas will not be converted into driving power. It should happen. Acceleration. As a result, the victim will wait too long," said Azis.
Azis reminded that disaster management should not be trapped in the old pattern that was noisy at the beginning, silent on the substance of solving problems.
"The most frequent leak in post-disaster handling is not only funds, but time. Data is circulating, authority is pulling and pushing, procurement is long-winded, reports are thick but do not have an impact on handling victims and infrastructure. If we let this time leak occur, rehabilitation will be just a coordination meeting that is crowded at the desk - a little work as if the problem is resolved," he continued.
The Gerindra legislator from the Central Java District also fully supports the President's direction to optimize work and execution of clear and quick handling. First, with the one-door method of cross-ministry/agency coordination and local government.
"The rehabilitation and reconstruction body or task force must be one command, one data, one target, one rhythm from the center to the region. Don't all work, but no one is leading, and collaborate with figures and ulama to awaken the spirit of the people faster," said Azis.
Second, there must be one open and verifiable database of damage and needs. "Don't let the numbers change like the weather," he added.
Third, there must be a time target and work standards including when temporary housing, when permanent housing, when schools and health services recover. Fourth, the impact on citizens as a measure, not the value of meetings and piles of documents. Fifth, build back better, build back stronger. "Don't repeat the same design and wait for the same disaster to come later," he said.
"The President has given directions, it must be fast, controlled, and enter into recovery with better institutions in presenting solid and compact field leadership. Now the question is for all of us, especially the regions, are you brave enough to change your work habits? Are you brave enough to close the time leak, the coordination leak, and the responsibility leak?," said Azis.
"I believe that if this task force/body is formed properly, then recovery will not be a "project", but a concrete, measurable, and tangible state work for the people," he added.
According to Azis, the rehabilitation and reconstruction task force is not an easy task, because it will be responsible for many things including answering the actual conditions in the field. Moreover, based on the data collected, there are still many rural areas that have not been reached.
Some of the things needed, continued Azis, include the distribution of clean water, logistical assistance for basic necessities and daily needs (clothing and blankets and mosquito nets), sanitation activation (portable public toilets), urban restoration (lifting mud, normalization of drainage and so on) so that logistics transportation can run smoothly.
Then, health workers and medicines in every village, the activation of electricity evenly in each sub-district, the restoration of telecommunications, making temporary shelters at least two points per village complete with a communal kitchen.
"Fuel is also very needed in relation to logistics distribution from the center of the aid point to the aid point in the corners, because currently fuel is scarce, even if there are those who sell it in retail in the provincial line, the price has reached 5 times the normal price, some points around Aceh, for example, limit the filling of 4-wheel bbm to only 200,000 rupiah," he said.
"So we support the President to do the work that is most needed at this time, a neat and quick execution," said Azis.
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