Issue Brief No. 1

In 2020, the SIAP SIAGA program commissioned several studies on the disaster management system in Indonesia with the aim of exploring the coherence of the system, including the conflicts and trade-offs between policies across key sectoral actors, clarity of roles and responsibilities for the implementation of disaster management services (both government and nongovernment actors), and assessing the impact these issues have on coordination for planning, budgeting and the quality of disaster management services. These studies have produced several key findings related to policy incongruence, particularly at the national level. These include the lack of formal mechanisms to coordinate cross-sectoral disaster management outside of the disaster response and recovery period, which results in the ineffective mainstreaming of disaster risk management at the regional level and the inefficient use of the disaster budget.