By Marguerite Afra Sapiie
President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo gathered his Cabinet members and heads of relevant agencies in a meeting on Monday, during which he called for his administration, particularly the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB), to improve the nation's disaster-mitigation measures, ranging from better early detection systems to disaster education at schools.
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In the meeting on Monday, [BNPB head Lt. Gen. Doni Monardo] went as far as to ask to Jokowi to order military personnel to guard new disaster early detection devices in tsunami-prone areas and regions with active fault lines -- which would be procured by BNPB soon.
"I have proposed to the President that the detection systems must be treated similar to those of vital national facilities and must be guarded by the members of the Indonesian Military [TNI]," Doni told the media after the Cabinet meeting on Monday.
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The BNPB is currently consulting a number of experts, who are assisting the government in conducting assessments to determine the ideal locations for installing the new early warning devices.
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