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UNAIR NEWS – Student organizations (ormawa) in (UNAIR) on Tuesday, April 3 were officially inaugurated. There was management handover and work program formulation, including for Student Activity Unit (UKM) Volunteer Corps of Red Cross Indonesia (KSR-PMI).

Head of UKM KSR-PMI Rizqi Supramulyana Putra said that the organization has planned interesting work programs this year. One of them is to make UNAIR as Campus with Disaster Preparedness (KSB).

According to him, KSB is an integrated disaster risk reduction based on campus. The main target is the creation of safe and resilient campus and society to face disasters.

“This idea, (KSB work program, ed) makes UNAIR with its students and campus residents have an active role as agents of change in the campus environment especially to make disaster risk reduction efforts (DRR) on an ongoing basis, “he explained.

In Indonesia, there is only one university that declares itself as KSB, State University of Semarang (Unnes) in Central Java. According to Supra, it is an opportunity to make UNAIR as KSB as well as gain reputation with the better quality.

“Indirectly, UNAIR will be a pilot project for other campuses who want to become Disaster Prepared Campus. This program is expected to support UNAIR towards World Class University (WCU) to the Top 500 world rankings, “he said.

As an effort to realize UNAIR as KSB, UKM KSR-PMI has conducted a comparative study to Unnes. The event, continued Supra, is aimed to explore and exchange experiences, information, about KSR-PMI especially related to KSB program.

“Our KSR-PMI delegation asked about the steps, implementation process, obstacles and their complaints as inputs and lessons. When we were there, we never thought would be able to join the seminar Politeknik Negeri Semarang (Polinnes), “he said.

Based on the comparative study, Supra explained that UNAIR actually has the potential to become KSB. Moreover, UKM KSR-PMI has conducted discussion about KSB with K3, Sub Directorate of Occupational Health and Safety (K3) UNAIR, in the Management Office.  According to them, the concept of KSB actually already exist. However, it is still on a small scale.

“We hope, in this process,  there is internal support from KSR-PMI and external UNAIR. Because, it is very necessary. Primarily in the effort to realize UNAIR as Campus with Disaster Prepared, “said Supra. (*)

Author: Hilmi Putra Pradana

Editor: Feri Fenoria