HUMAN RIGHTS APPROACH TO THE REGULATION OF NATURAL DISASTER MITIGATION IN INDONESIA
Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati, Mohammad Tavip, Derry Krisna Susanto
Faculty of Law - Universitas Airlangga
Abstract
The territory of Republic Indonesia is laid on an area that is very prone to natural disasters and earthquakes, consequently hundreds of natural disasters and earthquake take place in Indonesia every year. This natural disasters cause Indonesia encounter with losses: people death, disappear, injury, displace, homeless, and the damage of public facilities. The extent to which their effects increase inherent inequalities in life and society is to a significant extent a question of how governments and humanitarian actors integrate human rights into their disaster preparedness and response. International human rights principles should become guidance for disaster risk management, including pre-disaster mitigation and preparedness measures, emergency and rehabilitation assistance, and reconstruction efforts. Adherence to international human rights standards will help ensure that the basic needs of victims or beneficiaries are met. The challenge often is how to apply these rules in an operational context. Additionally, this paper explore problems of human rights protection in natural disaster mitigation under Indonesian national regulation, focusing on the urgency of the implementation of human rights protection in disaster mitigation; and the epistemology of human rights protection related to disaster mitigation in Indonesia.
Keywords: human rights; natural disaster; mitigation; Indonesia
Topic: Disaster Management