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Fri, 12/26/2008 - 22:13
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PRESIDENT WANTS TSUNAMI DRILL INCLUDED INTO SCHOOL CURRICULUM
Manado, N Sulawesi, Dec 26 (ANTARA) - Unable to watch directly a tsunami simulation drill in Manado, North Sulawesi on Saturday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expressed hope here on Friday that it could be incorporated in the school curriculum.
President Yudhoyono said if the tsunami drill was put into the school curriculum, the students were expected to know and understand in advance how to anticipate the threat of tsunami disaster.
Jointly organized by the Research and Technology Ministry and the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (MBG), the tsunami drill was originally scheduled for Friday in conjunction with the commemoration of the devastating tsunami in Aceh province on December 26, 2004.
However, the president adjourned the drill to Saturday instead of Friday because it was in conjunction with the second day of Christmas.
President Yudhoyono and his entourage arrive here on Thursday for a two-day working visit until Friday to attend Christmas celebration on Thursday evening and to check the preparation of the tsunami drill.
However he was unable to directly watch the simulation drill, but he apologized for his absence in the activity and expressed hope that it should go ahead successfully.
According to presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng, President Yudhoyono said the most effective way to familiarize tsunami preventive measures was to make it part of teaching and learning process at schools.
Malarangeng said if the tsunami drill was taught at schools, the students would get familiar with its management and evacuation if such a disaster happened anytime.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the event organizing committee, HR Makagansa, said here recently that the tsunami simulation drill would need the participation of at least 15,000 volunteers who would be recruited from among the general public, civil servants, military, police and quarters responsible for rescue management in a tsunami disaster, students and medical staffers.
He said the committee had decided 11 points to be the tracks of evacuation during the simulation, among others Lorong Miftahul Janah, Pancaran Kasih Hospital, Tombariri viallge, Tomohon village, Kakas village, Piere Tendean street, Rex Mundi Foundation, Lorong Pondol, Gunung Langit, and the International Trade Center.
President Yudhoyono said if the tsunami drill was put into the school curriculum, the students were expected to know and understand in advance how to anticipate the threat of tsunami disaster.
Jointly organized by the Research and Technology Ministry and the Meteorology and Geophysics Agency (MBG), the tsunami drill was originally scheduled for Friday in conjunction with the commemoration of the devastating tsunami in Aceh province on December 26, 2004.
However, the president adjourned the drill to Saturday instead of Friday because it was in conjunction with the second day of Christmas.
President Yudhoyono and his entourage arrive here on Thursday for a two-day working visit until Friday to attend Christmas celebration on Thursday evening and to check the preparation of the tsunami drill.
However he was unable to directly watch the simulation drill, but he apologized for his absence in the activity and expressed hope that it should go ahead successfully.
According to presidential spokesman Andi Malarangeng, President Yudhoyono said the most effective way to familiarize tsunami preventive measures was to make it part of teaching and learning process at schools.
Malarangeng said if the tsunami drill was taught at schools, the students would get familiar with its management and evacuation if such a disaster happened anytime.
Meanwhile, the chairman of the event organizing committee, HR Makagansa, said here recently that the tsunami simulation drill would need the participation of at least 15,000 volunteers who would be recruited from among the general public, civil servants, military, police and quarters responsible for rescue management in a tsunami disaster, students and medical staffers.
He said the committee had decided 11 points to be the tracks of evacuation during the simulation, among others Lorong Miftahul Janah, Pancaran Kasih Hospital, Tombariri viallge, Tomohon village, Kakas village, Piere Tendean street, Rex Mundi Foundation, Lorong Pondol, Gunung Langit, and the International Trade Center.
