Mount Merapi Siaga, BPBD Boyolali Regency Prepares Evacuation Route

Mount Merapi (Photo: Doc BNPB)

JAKARTA - The Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) of Boyolali Regency continues to make efforts to handle emergency alerts, in anticipation of an increase in the level of Mount Merapi from alert or level II to alert or level III.

Head of the BNPB Disaster Information and Communication Data Center Raditya Jati said the report received by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) National Disaster Management Center (Pusdalops), the Boyolali Regency BPBD team has focused on handling areas that are included in the Hazard Prone Areas (KRB) III Gunung Merapi, namely Jrakah Village, Klakah Village and Tlogolele Village in Selo District.

"Efforts that have been made are preparing evacuation routes for residents, establishing evacuation gathering points, conducting field rehearsals related to the implementation of evacuations, public kitchens and evacuation to buffer villages," he said, in a written statement received by VOI, Saturday, November 7.

Not only that, Raditya said the Boyolali Regency BPBD had also carried out socialization related to the implementation of sister villages during the pandemic, namely between Tlogolele Village in Boyolali Regency with Mertoyudan Village and Bumirejo Village which were included in the administrative area of Magelang Regency.

Furthermore, the Boyolali Regency BPBD team immediately distributed logistics in the form of food and masks to the TPPS in Tlogolele Village, Klakah Village and Jrakah Village, after the alert status of Mount Merapi was determined by the Geological Disaster Investigation and Technology Development Center (BPPTKG).

"In addition, the Boyolali Regency BPBD team and the joint venture have also placed transportation means in the form of trucks to assist residents in evacuating Klakah Village," he said.

In line with that, said Raditya, the implementation of updating the population data collection including those who are vulnerable, livestock and vehicles in the KRB III area will also continue.

Furthermore, he said, socialization related to the latest information was also continuously conveyed so that the public would not panic. On the other hand, residents are also advised to be able to prepare themselves to carry out an evacuation.

Apart from the three villages in Boyolali Regency, other areas that are included in KRB III and must receive immediate treatment according to the BPPTKG are Ngargomulyo, Krinjing and Paten, Dukun Subdistrict in Magelang Regency and Tegal Mulyo, Sidorejo and Balerante, Kemalang Subdistrict in Klaten Regency, Central Java.

Then, the village administrative areas included in the estimated hazard area in the Yogyakarta Special Region Province are Glagaharjo, Kepuharjo and Umbulharjo, which are in Cangkringan District, Sleman.

Meanwhile, said Raditya, the recommendation from the BPPTKG for the KRB III area is mining in the rivers that originate at Mount Merapi in KRB III to be stopped, tourism actors not to carry out tourism activities at KRB III Mount Merapi, including climbing activities to the top of Mt. Merapi.

The governments of Sleman Regency, Magelang Regency, Boyolali Regency and Klaten Regency are asked to prepare everything related to disaster mitigation efforts due to the eruption of Mount Merapi which can occur at any time.