The British government has granted 4.5 million pounds (about 9 million U.S. dollars) to Indonesia for disaster management, Minister of Development Planning Paskah Suzatta said Tuesday.
Suzetta said that the fund would be used to finance a program of Safer Communities through Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia, which has been rampant on the natural disaster. "We expect community's participation would be intensified through this program," he said at his office on the launching of the grant.
On the same occasion, co-chair of National Disaster Management Agency Syamsul Ma'arif said that the fund would be prioritize to build logistic posts in vulnerable disaster-hit areas in order to enable supplying logistic quickly. "So far, we plan to build 12 posts across the country," he said.
Indonesia has been rampant on natural disaster, including flood, landslide, earthquake and tsunami.
Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed in the disasters since the tsunami in 2004.
Lack of forest-covered areas, which caused by forest destruction and illegal logging, has been blamed for the cause of flood and landslide.
Source: Xinhua
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