Relief Logistics Practices in Indonesia: A Survey
The Fifth International Conference on Business and Management Research (ICBMR), University of Indonesia, August 4th, 2010
18 Pages Posted: 23 Sep 2010
Date Written: September 23, 2010
Abstract
Indonesia is considered as a disaster-prone country. Many disasters, natural or man-made disasters, have occurred in Indonesia in the recent years, such as the earthquakes in West Java and West Sumatra provinces in 2009. Besides earthquake, many areas in Indonesia also hit by Tsunami, landslide, flood, forest fire and drought.
Disaster management involves plans, structures, and arrangements established to engage the normal endeavors of governments, voluntary and private agencies in a comprehensive and coordinated way to respond to the whole spectrum of emergency needs. The disaster management cycle consists of four stages, namely mitigation, preparedness, response and rehabilitation. Effective logistics management is one of the critical success factors in disaster management.
Relief (humanitarian) logistics aims at rapidly providing the appropriate emergency supplies to disaster survivors and at minimizing human suffering and death. Logistics plays an important role in disaster management because it accounts for eighty percent of the relief operations.
This research is concerned with a survey to understand the disaster survivors' perspectives on relief logistics activities and to study the relief logistics networks of parties involved in disaster relief operations in Indonesia, such as The National Agency for Disaster Management (BNPB), Ministry of Health, Ministry of Social, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI), and Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs). Based on the result of the survey, we determine the critical success factors of relief logistics activities in Indonesia.
Keywords: humanitarian logistics, relief logistics, disaster management
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