1. Royal Thai Army’s Roles
in
Disaster Relief Operations
By
Col. Danaiwattana Roong-uthai
Policy and Plan Division, Directorate of Logistics,
Royal Thai Army (RTA)

2. Outline of my presentation
1. Big Flood in Thailand in 2011
2. Disaster Management in Thailand
3. Lesson Learned
4. International Cooperation in Disaster Relief
Operations

3. 1.Causes of Flood in 2011:
1.1 Out-of-control- 5 big storms
Haima June-July
Nock-ten July-Aug
Haitang Sep-Oct
Nesat Oct
Nalgae Oct

4. Mountainous areas
1.2 Controllable, but no experience:
Terrains and Rivers in Thailand
Low
area

5. Damages
No less than 300,000 million baht
GDP decrease 2.3% from government’s expectation
death 813, lost 3
Agricultural areas 11.4 million rais (1 rai=400 sq.m.)
Budget for recover 100,000 million baht in 65
provinces

6. Industrial-Cluster areas
severely damages
Ayuthaya Province
Saharattana Nakorn Cluster factories, investment cost mb,
employee people
Rojana Cluster
Hitech
Bang Pa-in
Factory Land
Total
Patumtany Province
Navanakorn
Bang Gadee
Total
Net total mb

7. 2.Disaster Management in Thailand
Disaster Prevention and Relief Operation Bill 2007,
Department of Disaster Prevention and Relief
Army C-IN-C is one of the DPR Committees
12 DPR centers and 75 DPR offices in all provinces
Cabinet has highest authority in DR Operation
Exception: Bangkok has it own DPR committee office.
Disaster Prevention and Relief Operation Plan 2010-2014
identified 14 types of disasters
Community participation in operations- civil voluntary
sectors, One Tumbon One Rescue Team-OTOS

8. More details-RTA Disaster Relief Operation
Army Disaster Relief Center (http://www.adrcrta.com/)

9. RTA DR Operatios
1. RTA DRC acts under control of DoD DRC
2. Government assigned RTA account for 5 provinces
nearby Bangkok, then the whole areas of Bangkok.
3. RTA working processes
-Strictly operations under government controls
-More flexible, RTA is allowed to work freely

10. Department of Defense
Level
DoD’s DRC
DRC OF Permanent Ministry DRC OF Supreme
Office Command HQ
DRC of Supreme Command RTA’S DRC RTN’S DRC RTAF’S DRC
subordinate’s Units
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11. RTA Level
RTA’s DRC
RTA- HQ. DRCs ARMY AREAS DRCs
1ST ARMY AREA DRC 2ND ARMY 3RD ARMY 4TH ARMY
AREA DRC AREA DRC AREA DRC
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12. DR COMPANY x4
HQ SUPPORT
PLT
RESCUE TOOL PLT RAPID RESCUE PLT
SERVICE MAINTENANCE LIGHT HEAVY
SECTION TEAM RESCUE TEAM RESCUE TEAM
SERVICE TEAM
MEDIC TEAM
TOE 41 – 117 (8 JUNE 2005)

13. Logistics operations and DR-OPERATIONS
Supply
Maintenance
Transportation
Medical Services
Other Services

14. Lesson Learned:
1. Lacking of coordination systematically
2. limited capabilities of working units
3. Low efficiency in DR operations
4. Limited budget and strictly or non-flexible
budget system

15. International cooperation in DR
Operations
1. Thailand-ASEAN
1) AEGDM (ASEAN Experts Group on Disaster Management), established 1971 then
ACDM (ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management) in 2002. Thailand takes
precedent this year (2012).
2) AADMER, 2005 (ASEAN AGREEMENT ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND
EMERGENCY RESPONSE, Work Program for 2010 – 2015)
3) APSC (ASEAN Political and Security Community)
B5 -> civil-military coordination
4) ASCC (ASEAN Society and Cultural Community)
B7 -> AHA Center
5) 12th ACAMM (ASEAN Chiefs of Armies Multilateral Meeting, 1st ACAMM in year
2000) 25-28 Oct. 2011, in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Developing ASEAN armies’
cooperation in disaster relief in Southeast Asia)
2. Thailand-US.
COBRA GOLD
3. Thailand – Japan
MLST

16. Question?