Indonesia: Disaster management to be key component of global development agenda post-2015

"In 2010 alone, over 42 million people were displaced by disasters," across the globe, the President said at the opening ceremony in the State Palace, reports Tempo Interactive. "We must safeguard Millennium Development Goals gains from setbacks from natural disasters," he added.

He further added that "disaster resilience should be made as one of the national building blocks for sustained prosperity and the needs to develop DRR institutional capacity as part of the national development."

President Yudhoyono has been recognized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) for making disaster risk reduction a national priority following the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.