Presenting PASTI in the Smart House Management Workshop

UNESCO organised a workshop in West Sumatera between 6th and 8th January 2011 with the theme "Smart House Management throughout Sumatera". The event was attended by officials from West Sumatera Education Quality Control insurance (LPM), participants from Indonesia Wife Minister Association (SIKIB), , Indonesia National Committee for UNESCO (KNIU) and the delegation of Smart Houses around Indonesia.

At this event, HFI were invited to share their expertise and offer a training regarding the PASTI tool (Preparedness Assessment Tool for Indonesia). PASTI is a tool aiming to assess the preparedness to deal with disaster hazards in a given region.  PASTI was created by the HFI and UNESCO in 2009, to answer the need for disaster risk reduction programmes in Indonesia as the country is prone to various natural disasters.


The programme above is also called "Smart Indonesia", being aimed to promote the national movement on how to manage "Smart Houses" as part of a government support programme for disasters risk reduction.  A "Smart House" is a regional centre of information and activities in reducing disaster risks. The Houses are being built in many provinces in Indonesia.

The other speaker at this event, prof.  Arief Rachman is an important national figure in education. His speech was on how to manage effectively a Smart House and how to make everyone coming to a Smart House enjoy their learning experience. He said that such programmes should be set up in other parts of Indonesia, especially in the most prone disaster areas.

Humanitarian Forum Indonesia remains committed to making Indonesia a more disaster resilient country via capacity building and empowering local communities.