Kadin Chairman Arsjad Rasjid: Entrepreneurs Must Be More Responsive To Disaster Risk

Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Arsjad Rasjid. (Photo: Instagram @arsjadrasjid)

JAKARTA - The level of threat of natural disasters in Indonesia is quite high, which also has an impact on the climate of business activities. Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Kadin), Arsjad Rasjid, asked business actors to adapt and respond quickly to disaster risks in their business implementation.

With the scale and frequency of disasters that tend to increase, said Arsjad, causing greater impact and damage to property, infrastructure, the environment, loss of life and social structure, the level of internal displacement and other impacts.

According to Arsjad, these losses and impacts are also caused by the lack of optimal disaster management by various key disaster management factors.

"We view that the speed and scale of adaptation in Indonesia needs to be increased to manage increased risks such as integrating climate resilience in urban planning, promoting climate-smart agriculture, and creating a strong disaster mitigation framework," he said in a written statement, Monday, October 25.

Besides having an impact on business activities, said Arsjad, disaster risk can also make the socio-economic system vulnerable. So this must be a common concern so that disaster management can be carried out as efficiently as possible.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairperson of the Coordinator for Human Quality Improvement, Research and Technology and Innovation Carmelita Hartoto said Kadin is ready to join hands in disaster management.

According to him, every company is expected to be able to equip its human resources with disaster response capabilities, as well as support for technology and information aspects in disaster mitigation.

"Companies engaged in IT can collaborate with the government to use technology in disaster management. All designs and work patterns can be collaborated, so that when a disaster arrives, business actors already know what to do, so that they become one unit with what the government is doing together with elements of the community. others," he said.

He also appreciated the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) for having InaRisk, which is a special application for disaster management. According to him, in its development, BNPB can collaborate with IT companies and other related sectors.

Carmelita said that the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the period 2021-2026 had established and given a disaster management mandate to the Social and Disaster Management Sector. This effort can be done by building togetherness through partnerships between national and international humanitarian agencies.