On the January 11, 2018, group of twenty-six (26) participants and lecturers from Counter Measures & Mitigation Planning Course’s, Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT); and EBC-K Research Group’s, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Kuala Lumpur had done an academic visit to National Disaster Command Centre (NDCC), located at Pulau Meranti, Cyberjaya. This is one of the program’s schedule for the course Control Measures and Mitigation Planning. The bus departs from UTM at 7.45 a.m. and arrived at NDCC at 9.00 a.m.
This academic visit was led by Associate Professor Dr Norliza, Razak School lecturer’s and had a short courtesy meeting with Mr Zainal Azman Abu Seman, Deputy Director General (Operational Sector) of National Disaster Management Agency (NaDMA) Malaysia in the beginning. After that, the overview briefing about NaDMA Malaysia were delivered by Mr Zainal Azman Abu Seman, and an overview of NDCC from Miss Zuraini Mohd Yusof, Director of NDCC. The program was divided by two sessions, which is class briefing and site visits to Command Center. The visit finish at 1.00 p.m.