YOUTH FOR RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE Y4RI

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Ms. Andi Atissa Puti Chaniago

My name is Andi Atissa Puti Chaniago and I am from Indonesia. I am a humanitarian worker with 2 years of experience especially in Disaster Risk Management DRM . I am currently part of PREDIKT, a Consulting and Research Institute that focuses on DRM issues. In addition, I also work as Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning at Mercy Corps Indonesia for the DRM program. I grew up nomadic from one place to another with my father who work in disaster areas. But to be honest, at the beginning of my career, I was not interested in the DRM issue because I think this issue is I think this issue is mostly carried out by adults and men. Therefore, I started my career in the child protection and youth participation issue, especially on child sexual exploitation. However, various opportunities brought me closer to the DRM issue until I finally decided to focus on humanitarian issues, especially DRM. Although I say that this issue is explored a lot by older people and men it hasnt changed much even after 2 years. The DRM issue cannot be separated from the experience that is only obtained during a disaster and of course, for me who has only responded to 1 or 2 disasters, I do not have a “voice” compared to my seniors. But I believe that youth have a place in disaster issues. Therefore, I also joined U-Inspire which is a youth organization that focuses on disaster issues. Apart from doing humanitarian practice through the programs that I carry out, I also try to write more about DRM and try to see DRM issues from the perspective of youth.

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Prison is one of the institutions in society that often does not get the attention of the government and the community, especially in disaster risk management DRM in Indonesia. In terms of infrastructure, including physical, non-physical and soft infrastructure, prisons in Indonesia have not implemented DRM. Whereas in many cases of disasters that have occurred in Indonesia, prisons find it difficult to carry out disaster risk management which causes riots in prisons, non-fulfillment of basic life rights, release or escape of prisoners from prison, and even death. The Ministry of Law and Human Rights has published The Guidelines for Disaster Management at the Correction Institutional in December 2019 but these guidelines have not been implemented optimally since they were published. One of them was in a prison in Tangerang, Banten which caught fire and resulted in the death of 45 prisoners. The chronology of the incident of saving prisoners and extinguishing the fire is still far from the Standard of Procedures that have been made. If the prison infrastructure is not prepared to deal with disasters, of course this will be the cause of other disasters, including social disasters. In addition, the unplanned infrastructure of prisons can lead to an unnecessary “Death Penalty” for prisoners.

Unplanned Prison Infrastructure: Unnecessary Death Penalty for Prisoners

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