What it is
Law No. 24 of 2007 is Indonesia's primary legal framework for disaster management. It establishes principles, institutional responsibilities, and arrangements for disaster risk reduction, emergency response, rehabilitation, and reconstruction, including the role of the national disaster management agency and regional agencies.
Governance function
The law structures disaster management as a public responsibility across national and regional authorities. In displacement contexts, it defines the disaster governance channel through which affected populations may be identified, assisted, evacuated, and supported during recovery.
Who is included
People affected by officially recognised disasters, including those evacuated, displaced, injured, or otherwise affected by disaster impacts, may be included through disaster response and recovery mechanisms.
Who is left out
People experiencing protracted displacement after the formal emergency phase, people moving outside the affected jurisdiction, informal settlers, and people affected by slow-onset or compound shocks may face gaps if they are no longer treated as disaster beneficiaries.
Where continuity breaks
Continuity breaks when emergency beneficiary lists do not transfer into social protection, civil registration, housing, livelihood support, or local planning systems after the immediate response period.
Why it matters
This law is important because Indonesia has sophisticated disaster governance, yet displacement may still become administratively discontinuous after emergency response. The political economy archetype is event-based recognition with post-emergency discontinuity.
Governance coding table
| Political economy archetype | Event-based recognition |
|---|---|
| Responsibility | BNPB carries national coordination responsibility, while BPBDs, line ministries, local governments, and sectoral agencies carry implementation responsibilities. |
| Eligibility | Eligibility depends on disaster status, location, impact assessment, evacuation or affected-person records, and local implementation rules. |
| Financing | Financing comes through national and local disaster budgets, contingency funds, rehabilitation and reconstruction allocations, and external support where applicable. |
| Data systems | Disaster impact assessments, evacuation records, BNPB/BPBD data, local population records, and sectoral beneficiary lists shape access and follow-up. |
| Delivery system | Delivery runs through BNPB, BPBDs, local governments, emergency services, shelters, public works, social affairs, health, education, and humanitarian partners. |
| Portability | Portability is limited when assistance is tied to disaster location, local beneficiary records, or jurisdiction-specific recovery programmes. |
| Accountability | Accountability depends on administrative oversight, disaster management procedures, local government responsibility, audit, grievance channels, and political monitoring. |
| Time horizon | Pre-disaster, emergency response, rehabilitation, and reconstruction, though displacement often extends beyond formal recovery cycles. |
Sources
Official sources
- Law No. 24/2007 English translation PDF
- PreventionWeb summary of Indonesia Law No. 24/2007
- BNPB official website