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In order to anticipate and deal with natural disasters in the country, the Indonesian National Police (Polri) uses the code name “Aman Nusa II” to carry out emergency operations from the central to the regional level.

“Operation Aman Nusa II is often carried out by the National Police when climate change approaches. From the dry season to the rainy season, this often causes many natural disasters, such as floods and landslides,” said the Director of the Public Information Bureau. (Kaopenmas). Thursday, Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, Public Relations of Polda Metro Jaya.

Rusdi explained that the National Police had prepared “Operation Noosa II Safety” as early as 2020, such as preparing personnel to be deployed to disaster management equipment such as tents, logistics, and combat vehicles. Power, so from now on which equipment will be prepared, it will only be a police disaster. Put all available resources,” said Rusdi.

According to him, if a disaster occurs in an area, Polri personnel will go to the location to provide assistance to the victims, set up refugee camps if needed, and send logistics.

“Of course in this case the police are not alone, we are coordinating with the regional government, of course the TNI,” he said.

In addition to disaster management, continued Rusti, the National Police also carried out preventive activities to remind the public to pay attention to disaster predictions.

One-star general Rusdi said: “If precautionary measures are taken from the start, not only the police, but the BMKG also warns that high rainfall is expected in many areas due to the La Nia phenomenon.” Bureau of Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics. (BMKG) ) Has monitored the cooling of the water surface temperature of minus 0.61 in the first 10 (dasarian) days of October 2021 in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

“This condition shows that the Rania phenomenon has occurred because theoretically it has exceeded the 0.5 threshold as a condition for the occurrence of: a Weak Nina.”

Like the La Nina phenomenon in 2020, rainfall increases by 20% to 70% in one month.

This situation is certainly more worrying, especially since Indonesia is currently entering the rainy season. Therefore, it is necessary to understand the possibility of increasing hydrometeorological disasters.

Many areas have experienced hydrometeorological disasters, such as Batu in East Java, Kapuas Hulu in West Kalimantan, Deli Serdang in North Sumatra, floods and landslides in South Aceh, and Garut Regency in West Java.