Disaster Simulation and Trial of Evacuation Route and Gathering Point were carried out on Sunday (28/08/22) at Lokok Sutrang Hamlet, Santong Mulia Village.The activity was facilitated by SHEEP Indonesia in Lombok region together with the Santong Mulia village disaster preparedness team (TSBD) and the community evacuation center (PEM) management team in Santong Mulia village.In this activity, the participating community can assess the extent to which the available evacuation routes are able to provide ease of evacuation of the community to the PEM building when a disaster occurs.
The activity, which was attended by the Village community, Village Government, TSBD, PEM Manager, Radio Suara Genem Merenten (SGM), Karang taruna, Cadres and Village Midwives, focused on preparing community evacuations in the event of a disaster so that they understood the gathering points, evacuation routes and who were the parties who should be prioritized in the evacuation process.An interesting thing happened during the evacuation where each party involved in the activity without being commanded took their respective roles where the village midwives were ready with their health equipment, the village youth prepared in each vulnerable group's house to help them evacuate and other groups who went directly to the gathering point to go to the evacuation center.This is clear evidence that the disaster-related capacity building that has been given by SHEEP Indonesia really understands and is able to be practiced properly.
The disaster simulation activity is part of efforts to educate and strengthen the capacity of the community and teams related to disaster topics to support the management of PEM.The building will be used by all communities in the village so that its access, maintenance and function and how safe it is to get to the building need to be known and practiced.In the agreement, simulation activities will be routinely carried out at the hamlet level and managed by the village.