1.What factors most significantly influence the gap between disaster management policies and their implementation by the police in disaster-prone regions?
2.Are there differences in how the roles of the police in disaster management are interpreted across national, provincial (Polda), and district (Polres) levels?
Replies:
Thank you for the questions.
1. The gap is mainly influenced by unclear role definitions, limited disaster-specific
capacity and resources, and weak inter-agency coordination. At the operational
level, police units adapt policies to local disaster realities and urgent needs, which
often leads to deviations from formal policy intentions.
2. Yes. At the national level, police roles are interpreted strategically and
normatively. At the provincial level (Polda), roles are understood as coordination and
operational support. At the district level (Polres), roles are interpreted pragmatically
and expanded based on immediate disaster conditions and community expectations.
Could you please give me the policy given by the government to maximize the
possibility of disaster environment for the next, is there any collaboration with the
Universities or other side?
Thank you
Replies:
Thank you for the question. The government has issued several policies to
strengthen disaster risk reduction and preparedness, including the National Disaster
Management Plan (RIPB), the Disaster Risk Reduction Action Plan (RAN PRB), and
regulations that promote multi-stakeholder collaboration. These frameworks
explicitly encourage partnerships with universities and research institutions for risk
assessment, capacity building, education, and innovation. In practice, however,
collaboration is often project-based and ad hoc, rather than institutionalized,
indicating the need for stronger, sustained government-university partnerships to
support long-term disaster preparedness and learning environments.
Effective coordination during crisis situations often emerges from urgency, improvisation, and personal relationships rather than from well-established institutional mechanisms. why does such coordination not necessarily indicate that the operational gap between disaster management policy and actual police practice has been successfully bridged?
Replies:
Effective coordination driven by urgency, improvisation, and personal relationships
does not necessarily indicate that the operational gap has been bridged because
such coordination is situational, informal, and person-dependent rather than
institutionalized. While it may enable short-term effectiveness during crises, it
operates outside formal policy frameworks, lacks standard operating procedures,
and is not consistently replicable across events or locations. These adaptive
practices reflect local coping strategies rather than successful alignment between
disaster management policy and routine police practice.
How do police officers in Aceh Province interpret and operationalize their roles in
disaster management, and what challenges affect their preparedness and
coordination across disaster phases?
Replies:
Police officers in Aceh interpret their disaster management roles flexibly and
pragmatically, often extending beyond formal mandates to meet immediate
community needs, particularly during the response phase. However, their
preparedness and coordination across disaster phases are constrained by unclear
role codification, limited disaster-specific training, resource constraints, and reliance
on ad hoc coordination, which weakens continuity from preparedness to recovery.
