BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Tuesday 18 June 2013 – Local and international media who will be providing wide coverage of the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting-Plus Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief and Military Medicine Exercise (ADMM PLUS HADR & MM Ex) was taken for a-day media tour to the exercise sites.
The Head of Media, Leftenan Colonel Haji Salleh bin Haji Suhaili gave a brief commentary of the exercise, with the tour commencing afterwards. The brief which was held at HADR Media Centre at the Royal Brunei Naval Base began with a video presentation of the arrival of exercise participants, Force Integration Training (FIT), and the programme highlight for 20 June.
After the media briefing, members of the media were taken to the Multi National Coordination Centre (MNCC) before visiting the 2nd Level Hospital at RBN Parade Square, a field hospital which treats minor injuries.
The media were later divided into two groups; the first group headed to the exercises sites in Temburong District located in Kampong Biang where the medical camps are stationed, Kampong Selangan Primary School for walk-in casualties and the Incident Coordination Centre in Bangar. Meanwhile the second group visited the Singapore’s RSS ENDURANCE ship and India’s INS GHARIAL ship docked at the Royal Brunei Naval Jetty. In the afternoon, both groups went to the Mentiri Housing Area, another exercise location for the HADR where they had a close encounter with the injected exercise scenarios of the Urban Search and Rescue (USAR).
The purpose of the media tour was to allow the medias to familiarize with the VIP and VVIP programme on the 18 June and 19 June and to share common media objectives which is to promote ADMM Plus as an important platform to forge close and warm working relationships with ADMM and ADMM Plus countries. The media visit ended at the Media Centre.
MEDIA KUNJUNGI KAWASAN LATIHAN HADR
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Selasa 18 Jun 2013
– Media tempatan dan antarabangsa yang akan memberikan liputan meluas
bagi Eksesais Mesyuarat Menteri-Menteri Pertahanan ASEAN Plus (ADMM
Plus) Bantuan Kemanusiaan dan Bencana dan Perubatan Tentera (HADR &
MM) telah dibawa melawat ke kawasan-kawasan eksesais hari ini.
Ketua
Media, Leftenan Kolonel Haji Salleh bin Haji Suhaili memberi penerangan
ringkas mengenai dengan eksesais, diikuti dengan lawatan selepas itu.
Penerangan yang diadakan di Pusat Media HADR di Pangkalan Tentera Laut
Diraja Brunei (TLDB) itu bermula dengan persembahan video ketibaan
peserta latihan, Pasukan Latihan Integrasi (FIT), dan kemuncak program
bagi 20 Jun.
Selepas
penerangan taklimat media, ahli-ahli media telah dibawa ke Pusat
Koordinasi Berbilang-Negara (MNCC) sebelum melawat Hospital Peringkt 2
di padang kawad Tentera Laut Diraja Brunei, hospital medan yang merawat
kecederaan ringan.
Pihak
media kemudiannya dibahagikan kepada dua kumpulan, kumpulan pertama
menuju ke kawasan latihan di Daerah Temburong yang terletak di Kampong
Biang dimana kem perubatan ditempatkan, Sekolah Rendah Kampong Selangan
bagi mangsa-mangsa cedera dan Pusat Koordinasi Insiden (ICC) di Bangar.
Sementara kumpulan kedua melawat Kapal Singapura RSS ENDURNCE dan kapal
India INS GHARIAL yang berlabuh di Jeti Tentera Laut Diraja Brunei. Pada
sebelah petang, kedua-dua kumpulan melawat ke Kawasan Perumahan
Mentiri, satu lagi lokasi latihan untuk HADR di mana mereka melihat
dengan lebih dekat senario latihan yang disuntik untuk pengendalian
operasi mencari dan menyelamat dalam bandar (USAR). Lawatan media
diakhiri di pusat media.
Tujuan
lawatan media berkenaan adalah untuk membenarkan media untuk
membiasakan dengan program VIP dan VVIP pada 18 Jun dan 19 Jun dan
berkongsi objektif media yang sama iaitu untuk menggalakkan ADMM Plus
sebagai platform penting untuk menjalin erat dan mesra hubungan kerja
dengan ADMM dan ADMM Plus negara.