Indonesia today into disaster-prone areas, some time ago, Indonesia was again overwhelmed with disasters ranging from earthquakes and tsunami disaster Mentawai eruption of Mount Merapi. The disaster has caused considerable casualties in the hundreds. For citizens who are still alive must be willing to evacuate, what a miserable life in refugee camps with limited infrastructure, the need for food pickup, to the burden experienced by residents of mind because the majority of their houses damaged by the disaster. Until now people around the slopes of Mount Merapi are willing to leave their homes in search of safety. Disaster eruption of Mount Merapi, and the Mentawai disaster may lead to some impacts include declining economic activity, the impact psykologis displaced residents, environmental damage, interfere with livelihood opportunities, education and implementation of social services, eroding savings and create health problems, often with consequences of long-term can increase the level of poverty. Mentawai disaster caused hundreds of casualties both dead and wounded as well as the catastrophic eruption of Mount Merapi has caused hundreds of civilian homes in the vicinity of damaged slopes evenly with hot clouds of ash as a result of which fell into the villages around the slopes of the mountain some time ago. This incident has claimed the lives of hundreds of people who died, it is ironic every time a disaster happens surely cause many casualties in Indonesia. By adjusting the natural conditions in Indonesia, who have no stable central and local governments must be responsive and continues to pursue a comprehensive and cooperative measures in disaster management so as to minimize the number of victims fell. In addition to rapid responsiveness and actions of governments in disaster management required level of awareness of people to want to be directed by the government at the time to socialize the status of Mount Merapi. Low level of public awareness in directed to evacuate when the volcano Merapi has entered the phase of alert caused by several things such as more concerned about safety of livestock animals, fear of theft at the abandoned house, just about to flee when they are visible events eruption of Mount Merapi. Residents are still a lot of passing by at Merapi disaster-prone areas this can be fatal endangering themselves. So this time the eruption of Mount Merapi has claimed the lives of some residents. Community awareness is low and does not care about the dangers of volcanic eruptions trim at any time can happen because they menggangap their livestock are the most precious treasure amid the current economic crush. It is a pity people do not care about his life in a state prone to death simply for fear of losing a cow. Local governments should be the front line to build awareness of disaster-prone towards citizens, including mitigation system. Local governments should be able to perform optimally socialization of the danger of hot clouds every time to glide to the settlement residents in the area of the slopes of Merapi, also act decisively to provide warning to residents who will be desperate to go kedaerah Merapi disaster prone. Both central and local governments should be able to ensure a sense of concern residents who are reluctant to evacuate because they are more concerned with safety of farm animals with financially compensate livestock that died when Merapi disaster at a reasonable price, also the need for intensive coordination with the military to ensure security property of the refugees. Then to the Mentawai government disaster made it less responsive, how Merapi disaster management with the Mentawai much different. Number of volunteers, food and clothing assistance is focused on disaster relief Mentawai Merapi so neglected and the lack of a good disaster mitigation. Mitigation is any structural (physical) or non-structural implemented to minimize the adverse impacts of natural hazard events potentially arise. Post-disaster conditions, in the Mentawai still looks devastated the volunteers are rushing to get home, geographic conditions, and the weather is not certain to make aid is also difficult to be distributed. So that disaster victims Mentawai became increasingly neglected. A variety of natural hazards can threaten the life and development in Indonesia. By understanding the occurrence of natural disasters that have occurred and anticipate the hazard events in the future, communities, governments and institutions engaged in development to reduce disaster risk. Failure to understand and anticipate the hazards can lead to very adverse consequences for the programs and development projects. However, development planners often do not adequately consider the natural hazards and disaster risk management. Therefore, communities and governments must also be aware, aware of the signs of natural hazards, information about the speed of onset of a hazard event is very important for disaster preparedness and early warning systems, and can also be useful for planning purposes. The danger is a symptom that is not static and exposure to hazards will change with time. Therefore, we must understand the hazard changes in the future in a certain period of time, so the assessment of the hazards are more "probable" rather than assessment of the danger of "normative" based on current conditions. This is especially true on climate change, which can cause a large effect on the patterns and trends hazards and natural disasters. (Charlotte Benson et all, 2007) The role of government is needed other than as a policy maker to join the community calling for maintaining and preserving nature. Nature will not be damaged and cause a variety of natural disasters when human hands are too overloaded in tapping the wealth derived from nature so that illegal actions such as illegal logging needs to be dealt with firmly, and the government should also thoroughly committed to implement a tree planting program well in areas that now the forest is damaged. Disaster Management According to the World Bank, the losses from disasters suffered by developing countries, if calculated as a percentage of gross domestic product, can reach 20 times greater than the losses suffered by industrial countries, while more than 95 percent of deaths caused by disasters occur in developing countries. More and more aware that disasters are a serious threat to sustainable development, poverty reduction efforts. The change from the old worldview rooted that disaster is something that is not predictable, inevitable and should be handled by emergency response experts, to some extent reflects the increasing understanding of disasters as a development issue that still must be overcome. (Charlotte Benson et all, 2007) A large number of disaster victims and Mentawai Merapi could be minimized if the disaster management in Indonesia either. The number of victims who died in the event of disaster indicated due to chaotic disaster management, for example at the time of the Merapi volcano has entered the phase of evacuation alert facility has not been well prepared in several locations that will be a place of refuge, the government will move if the disaster is completely really happened or mountain Merapi has erupted. Even the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) has also criticized the slow handling of disaster victims because the government did not seriously change the natural disaster management. Conclusion CPC, the government's performance in handling natural disasters tend to be unorganized aka no standard system. (Www.kabarindonesia.com) With reformasi, bureaucracy forced to be more responsive to the problems faced by its people. Bureaucratic reform is serving bureaucracy, the bureaucracy that serve the interests of the people. Being very unreasonable when it lost in the bureaucracy to provide quality service to the community. Especially the people who were suffering hardship due to natural disasters. Slow bureaucracy in the handling of the disaster caused by several things, first, Presidential Regulation No. 83 of 2005 which regulates the handling of the disaster. Regulation tends to centralized because it does not regulate the role of the community. This forced the governor, district heads, subdistrict heads, heads to lead to disaster management that is not necessarily the ins beluknya their power. With that stipulation, the disaster management submitted to the bureaucratic apparatus that can be totally unaware of disaster management procedures. In fact, everyone knows, when natural disasters occur that move the community. With wisdom and solidarity with their own shoulder to shoulder lift the victim, set up tents, make rice well with their own capital. When the government has not moved, it was society that advanced role. (Www.kabarindonesia.com) Second, the bureaucracy considered to have failed to learn from experience. This disaster can be bright or dim mirror of solidarity and state services to people affected by disasters. In the midst of difficult circumstances and very difficult circumstances, they require a helping hand of the state. The group failed bureaucracy plays in the middle as an intermediary between the public interest and special interests. The main task is to control and bureaucracy and empower the community. Included in a state of disaster. Thus the bureaucracy is often seen as a master or a boss who is always asking served could be developed as a government agency that works to serve the public interest. Bureaucracy is a waitress. In English, known as public servant, which means promoting the service, dedication to the community. Not just ask and diabdi served by the community. Become an irony, the image of the bureaucracy so bad at the location of natural disasters. State involvement in dealing with difficult people affected by the disaster, showing the speed and accuracy they act to handle the problem. Unfortunately in our country, the accuracy of public services in helping difficult people is often faced with bureaucratic problems that are not only more complicated, even not rarely squeeze. . (Www.kabarindonesia.com) The government should act more optimally in preventing and dealing with disasters that occurred in Indonesia. Central and local governments need to learn from past experience during previous disaster hit Indonesia, which at the time of planning and coordination of disaster management has been prepared with cooked. The government should also incorporate strategies and programs for disaster risk reduction into the overall development framework, with a view of disaster risk reduction as an integral part of the development process. Vulnerability to natural hazards must also be considered by both government and society, vulnerability is the potential to suffer damage or loss, associated with the capacity to anticipate a hazard, cope with hazards, prevent and recover from the impact of hazards and vulnerability to natural hazards is something complex and has many aspects, which require the analysis and solution of environmental perspective, economic, social, institutional and technical and therefore need appropriate tools to achieve this. (Charlotte Benson et all, 2007) The government should establish a policy whereby the ban established settlements in areas prone to disaster as well as the community should be aware and not just build housing without considering the level of vulnerability to natural hazards. It is possible to minimize casualties in case of natural disasters. The government needs to emphasize the optimization of a good disaster management and planned, as well as the need to consider disaster risk management to all the measures taken so that prevention and disaster management could be better. Disaster management policy which does not consider the degree of vulnerability can be fatal. For example Merapi eruption that occurred on Friday the 4 November 2010 early days ago before the government decided to refugees is at 15km from the peak of Merapi volcano eruption on the night but it makes the hot clouds rolled up in a radius of 16 kilometers, this led to many victims who fell, home residents and evacuation facilities were also damaged. Government should be cautious and consider in deciding policy disaster in accordance with the level of disaster vulnerability. A disaster that is not well prepared, handling conditions will be worse if there are disasters that come back so wargalah most felt bad service at the time of disaster. To optimize good disaster management need to be deployed all available resources such as officials, military officers, members of search and rescue, medical teams and other stakeholders to assist the handling of disaster victims. They must work together to coordinate the rescue of victims, and distribute aid in accordance with the needs in the refugee camps. In addition to human factors need to increase the budget allocated for disaster management, limited funds are also a constraint in providing handling services for disaster victims.
Responsiveness of the central and local governments to complaints of disaster victims must also be increased and immediate follow up. Then the most important in terms of Accountability is the central and local governments need to be more responsible for the loss of human life and physical losses and the economy caused by the disaster. However, managerial disaster management is essential to reduce direct and indirect impacts of the disaster. For the future the central and more regions will be required to provide a more responsive, faster and encourage the integration of prevention efforts and disaster reduction. Repair damage to infrastructure, and rehabilitation, and preparation of poverty reduction strategies is also a PR disaster the Indonesian government today. The existence of Merapi disaster and Mentawai create economic activity of residents in the area paralyzed, damaged many crops, dead livestock, damaged public infrastructure, the number of destroyed houses and flat, the property was also missing. This of course can have an impact on increasing levels of poverty in Indonesia, so the government must be prepared other than in optimizing the disaster management must also be responsive in the post-disaster recovery later on, especially in tackling poverty and Mentawai Merapi disaster. To overcome the poverty level of government should create a social assistance program specifically intended for disaster victims and Mentawai Merapi, social assistance programs for disaster victims and Mentawai Merapi is an effort to protect and rescue human beings as resources development of disaster risk. Social assistance programs can be offset to residents caused by the disaster relief trim covers repair of damaged homes, donations to the dead livestock, donations for Small, Micro and Medium Enterprises, social reintegration phase assistance and referral to the empowerment of victims of disaster. Relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction are any activities undertaken following the disaster to, as ordered, saving lives and meet the urgent humanitarian needs, restore normal activities and restore physical and community service. Efforts should be done by the government in socio-economic life of affected population is intended Merapi and Mentawai to recover and restore loss of property, damage to infrastructure, social facilities. The program is one of the government's efforts to improve the quality of social welfare services to the community to be able menumbukan independence of attitude and determination. At least with these efforts to minimize the grief, lara citizens and the economic paralysis caused by disaster of mount Merapi. In implementing the programs of natural disaster the government should pursue implementation of the program with good management. Planning, coordination, monitoring both at national and regional levels and the application of the principles of good governance is a matter that is urgent in the implementation of programs for achievable goals and objectives. In addition, to overcome the psychological impact of facing the disaster victims trim, especially in children, the government also had to try to restore the condition of their soul by making a policy delegating tasks to the psychologists, volunteers to help restore their mental condition. In addition to physically harm the victims of psychiatric conditions also must be considered by the government. Especially for children who are budding nation of Indonesia. With a view of Merapi disaster occurrence and Mentawai hopefully can make the leaders in Indonesia to better define a policy and improve services disaster by considering previous experiences, because by learning from experience to improve the deficiencies - deficiencies that occurred in the past, for realize the alertness of a better disaster management.
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