On the 4th of June, around 20 participants made their way to Situ Babakan - Jakarta’s conservation area for the local Betawi culture. This is also the Headquarters of Jakarta Rescue who hosted this 2nd IAEM Indonesia Chapter networking event for 2009.

Pak R. Hadianto Warjaman S.H. the Founder of Jakarta Rescue spoke about the organisation’s work and capabilities. He shared some experiences that this group has had with a wide range of disasters across the Indonesian archipeligo. To download his presentation, click here: jakarta-rescue-background

Pak Hadianto then handed over the floor to Nat Forbes, the IAEM Asia President. Nat spoke at length about attaining the Certified Emergency Manager qualification. Nat outlined plans to sponsor the applications and tests of the first 10 people qualifying for CEM in Asia, and promised assistance with essay and putting together the application package to those who need it. To download a copy of his CEM slides, click here: cem-slides-for-iaem-jakarta-event

Nat also spoke about a Pandemic Preparation Plan, and handed out a template to prepare a plan to all attendees. To access this and other EM/BCP resources, please visit the documents page of his corporate website Forbes Calamity Prevention.

To download additional photographs of the event and participants, click here. The IAEM Indonesia chapter thanks Jakarta Rescue greatly for their support of this event. Please do return that support if you can by participating in their training, or otherwise supporting their work in this disaster-susceptible country.

The next IAEM Indonesia event will be held in September/October. If you are interested in speaking or sponsoring please contact Angus Wildie.

The IAEM Indonesia Chapter will be holding its next networking session on 4 June 2009. The event features presentations from Nat Forbes on the CEM program within Asia and the release of a template tool that helps you to make a comprehensive Pandemic Preparation Plan for your organisation. Pak R. Hadianto Warjaman SH., from Jakarta Rescue will be speaking about various disasters in Indonesia, and will focus on water rescue techniques. Attendence is free with first preference to IAEM members.

To download the event brochure click here: iaem-sess-4

To download a location map at greater resolution click here: peta-lokasi-jakarta-sar

IAEM Indonesia Group Photo

The IAEM Indonesia chapter held its first networking session for 2009 at Energizer Indonesia’s Cimanggis plant on 17 March. 18 IAEM members and guests, together with additional attendees from Energizer participated in a tour of Energizer’s plant, then heard brief speeches from Energizer Plant Manager - Blaz Knezevic; IAEM Indonesia representative Angus Wildie, and longer presentations from:

• Bambang Heru - on aspects of Energizer Indonesia’s Emergency Management plans; and
• Shesh Kafle - on his work with the Canadian Red Cross on Integrated Community-Based Risk Reduction (ICBRR) in the tsunami-devasted province of Banda Aceh.

To download Bambang’s presentation click on energizer-rev (2Mb download)

To download Shesh’s presentation click on shesh-kafle_icbrr (1.3Mb download)

To download more photographs of the event in a pdf file click on energizer-pic (0.6Mb download)

The IAEM thanks its speakers and Energizer for hosting a very interesting event - in particular Blaz Knezevic for agreeing to open up the facility, Bambang Heru both for speaking and arranging sponsorship, and Ripah Andriyanti (Iput) for a great job arranging the details on the day.

The IAEM Indonesia chapter held a networking meeting on 25 November 2008 at Conoco Phillips’ office. The IAEM thanks Conoco Phillips for it’s generous sponsorship of venue and also speakers - Steve Buxton from Unity Resources Group and Pak Barokna from BASARNAS. Copies of their presentations can be downloaded by clicking the links below:

iaem-ics - Steve Buxton’s presentation on ICS - Incident Command System

basarnas-intro    basarnas - Pak Barokna’s presentation (in 2 parts) about BASARNAS 

Some photos of the event are attached below.

Click the link below to download the invitation to / session description for the next IAEM networking session to be held on 17 March 2009 at Energizer Indonesia.

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In the near future you will be able to download copies of all the presentations featured in our meetings, see photographs of the members and other session attendees, and keep up to date with our new meeting details. Please don’t hesitate to call me (Angus Wildie) for more information.