On the sidelines of a presentation at the Learning from Japan 4th Symposium 2012 titled 'Urban society’s vulnerability, disaster preparedness and mitigation in Indonesia and Japan,' Sugeng Triutomo, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB)’s deputy head for disaster prevention and preparedness, said that poor disaster mitigation and preparedness have put people at high risk.
According to Burhaini Faizal, writing for the Jakarta Post, BNPB has produced plans of disaster risk areas at the provincial level, which local authorities can use to apply policies to minimize disaster’s impacts on urban areas and better protect their people against disasters. "We are trying to support the government by issuing the mapping of high-risk areas and assisting local authorities in designing contingency plans," Sugeng added.