Flood and Landslide

This paper begins with a horror story. On a 'creature' is ready claimed the lives of many people. These creatures are known to act without time and come uninvited. He could prey at night when everyone was fast asleep, also during the day when people are busy wrestling with fate. Usually it comes when the rainy season arrives, especially if the flood water was no longer able to seep in the cracks of the soil. With one terkam pond can destroy hundreds of homes, separating children and parents, and even cut off roads.
Indonesia with tropical rain forest climate is potential to bring these creatures. Balong a threat to the 240 cities / districts in the country. The transfer function of the land, the depletion of the water catchment areas is the main ritual to bring in the pond this. The presence of Flood and Landslide (pond) is never expected, because it only leads to disaster. But even so, there is simply no efforts of the country to anticipate the arrival of mudhole. When the pond came up, the only remaining tears and sobs endless. Floods and landslides, a disaster that could potentially cripple the joints of social and economic life of the nation of Indonesia.

Recorded in 2012 mudhole have visited several areas on earth this archipelago. According to the data presented National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB), up to November 2012 the number of fatalities as much as 28,986 displaced by floods. In addition to landslide victims still suffering and displaced as many as 208 lives and caused floods and landslides in 5040 souls

Meanwhile, the victim died and gone to 33 people. Consisting of 19 people due to flooding, 12 people and two landslide caused by flooding and landslides. In addition to fatalities, the disaster also caused material damage. A total of 408 homes were severely damaged, 22 homes were damaged and 250 homes with minor damage. Plus five educational facilities, religious facilities and 1390 four hectares of rice fields damaged. When calculated from the beginning of 2012, has been 112 floods and landslides occurred. Worst flooding occurred in Mamasa with 15 deaths.

State Disaster Prone

Not to scare. But rather to build disaster cautious attitude amongst us. More than that is to sensitize our leaders do not engrossed fight in the arena called the election and spit a lot of promise, while people continue to scream at risk of flooding and landslides.

As one of the islands (archipelago) in the world, Indonesia has 17,000-an island. Lay between the two continents (Asia and Australia) and in the wedge by two Ocean (Indian Ocean and the Pacific). The islands of the archipelago consists of various areas with geographic diversity and difference, hydrological, geological, and demographics. Indonesia lies geographically located at the confluence of three continental plates dynamic nature that the Indo Australian, Eurasian and Pacific. The continental crust can sometimes be shifted due to tectonic movements. Drift which is the endogenous energy has the potential to cause a variety of natural events such as earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.

Indonesia positions that fall into the area of ​​the fire ring 'ring of fire', which is a cluster of active volcanoes under the ocean surface. Potential disasters in Indonesia is enormous especially look at the facts above. Indonesia has 129 active volcanoes, 80 of them dangerous. Similarly, the threat of floods and landslides threaten residents not spared our country. The floods have claimed many lives and huge material losses, with data as mentioned above.

Land Transfer Function

Law number 24 of 2007 on Disaster Management, has divided a disaster in 3 parts, namely natural disasters, disaster nonalam and social disaster. Floods and landslides alone qualifies the event of natural disaster or a series of events caused by nature caused among others by earthquakes, gugung eruption, tsunamis, floods, hurricanes and landslides. From this understanding we can realize that the awareness of the importance of the response to the floods has been written in the pages of the law, although it is still limited to theory. How is the proof in the field of course we can see the large-small number of survivors as a result of natural disaster early action itself.

Catastrophic flooding almost every monsoon season hit Indonesia. Based on the value of the loss and the frequency of occurrence of floods seen a significant increase. Genesis flood is highly influenced by natural factors such as rainfall and above normal high tide the sea water.

Besides man-made factors also play an important role as improper land use (residential area along the river, in the catchment area, deforestation, etc.), the disposal of waste into the river, the construction of settlements in the flood plains and so on. Ironically, it often floods hit large cities due to land conversion for business purposes only.

The lack of green open space (RTH)

The concept of green open space (RTH) is an idea that is spread in the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This idea was later reaffirmed at the World Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002. The summit stated that the city should ideally have RTH 30% of the total area of ​​the city. Indonesia itself, ratifying the results of the summit in Act 26 of 2007 concerning the arrangement of green open space. Implementing regulations contained in Permendagri number 1 in 2007.

Conscious Attitudes and Disasters

To cope with the flood disaster is indispensable cooperation of all parties, both the people and the government, especially amid the current global climate change. The attitude of the public conscious not to litter, diligently worked together to clean up the drainage, not denude forests without replanting effort is the attitude that is needed. Besides, the role of government in providing public space that is useful for water infiltration is an effort that is not less important. The attitude of the city that beautify city with skyscrapers, luxury hotels, shopping malls giant ignoring aspects of the environment is a disaster tercela.Upaya can not solely depend on the budget 200 billion are imposed in the state budget, more than it is active role of all of us to begin to stop exploiting natural.