Lessons learned: Indonesia’s partnership for disaster risk reduction

The National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction and the University Forum:

This brochure presents the evolution of the national platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Indonesia. It is of interest to those disaster management (DM) and DRR practitioners currently working to implement participatory and collaborative National Platforms for DRR or sub-national platforms for DRR. Policy-makers also can glean the strategic approach that was applied to garnering broad stakeholder partnerships for DRR through engineering partnership formats and inducing partners into leadership positions within the National Platform.

Partnerships in DM have been the cornerstone of the new DM Law in Indonesia, founded on the solid collegial bonds built out of the tragedy of disaster response. The partnerships for DRR were founded on the same collegial bonds but have since been engineered so as to evolve out of the legal reform process and head towards institutional and operational change.