Floods in Wasior-Papua

Floods in Wasior-Papua
Natural disasters are a consequence of a combination of natural activity of a physical event, such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, landslides and human activity.
Due to the powerlessness of human beings, due to lack of good emergency management, causing losses in financial and structural, even until death. The resulting loss depends on the ability to prevent or avoid disasters.
May never present and imagined in our minds that Papua will be attacked by the disaster, which has been devastating natural lantakkan and everything in it in the brunt of devastating flash floods. Monday, 08/30, nature's wrath brings heavy flood water overflowing of Sungai Batang Silai crashing 80% of the city Wasior Wondama Bay district, West Papua. through Friday (10/09/2010) night, there were 126 killed and 76 people remain missing and 800 injured.
Of the 3 major disaster that occurred recently, the flooding in Wasior Wondama Bay, West Papua, the earthquake and tsunami in the Mentawai Islands regency, West Sumatra, and the eruption of Mount Merapi in Sleman, Yogyakarta, last disaster called the most public attention. Locations that are more accessible and mass media coverage also makes this disaster into the public spotlight. This does not mean we forget about the handling of post-disaster in Wasior and Mentawai. In Merapi disaster, which highlighted the institution is the National Disaster Management Agency (BNBP). Understandably the President specifically called on the command of disaster management in the hands BNBP. Institutions established by Law 24/2007 on Disaster Management is tasked with coordinating the central government apparatus, such as military, police, Ministry of Social Affairs, as well as local government officials. In essence, the handling of disaster victims have not done well, so that the next BNBP have homework to improve themselves, especially related to coordination, management and transparency of funds, as well as information disclosure.