Identifying factors for assessing regional readiness level to manage natural disaster in emergency response periods

Disaster preparedness is an effective, realistic and coordinated planning program with risk reduction measures, reducing the impact of disasters, saving lives optimally, and returning the community to normal conditions in the shortest possible time. Sleman Regency has a volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi potensial. The agency of the emergency response should manage the emergency response period effectively and efficiently both concerning victim handling, and disaster logistics management. This study aims to identify factors for assessing regional readiness in disaster management. The analytic hierarchy process was employed to accomplish the objective of this research. There are 11 factors for assessing regional readiness in natural disaster management, namely: strengthening the legal framework for disaster management, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in development, enhancing multi-party partnerships in disaster management, implementing Good Governance in disaster management, increasing the effectiveness of disaster prevention and mitigation, improving preparedness and handling disaster emergencies, increasing disaster recovery capacity, understanding disaster risk, strengthening risk governance, DRR investment for resilience, and improving risk management.