Universitas Gadjah Mada has introduced a multidisciplinary Master’s Program on Disaster Management. The main purpose of this program is to increase the number of professionals capable of acting as managers fordisaster risk reduction programs, and emergency response, in the face of phenomena like earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, landslides, tropical cyclones, floods, and droughts. This program takes a multidisciplinary approach, based on disaster management cycles.The Master’s of Disaster Management is designed for the implemention of the Hyogo Framework for Action, providing trained professionals who are capable of working in the private sector, NGOs, or govermental offices in the fields of Disaster Mitigation, Risk Reduction, Post Disaster Response, as well as Recovery and Rehabiliation. The Master’s of Disaster Management provides three focus of study: Disaster Preparedness and Mitigation, Disaster Emergency Management, and Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.