ANALISIS KINERJA PEGAWAI BADAN PENANGGULANGAN BENCANA DAERAH (BPBD) DALAM PENANGANAN KEBAKARAN HUTAN DAN LAHAN DI KABUPATEN BERAU

The purpose of this research was to identify and clearly describe the performance of the Regional Disaster
Management Agency (BPBD) employeesin handling forest and land firesin Berau Regency. The primary data
source isin the form of questionnaire data which is distributed to 64 BPBD employees of Berau Regency using
saturated sampling method or census. The analytical tools used include: validity and reliability tests, and
weighted factor value methods.
This study concludes that the results of the respondents' answers to the questionnaire regarding the
performance of BPBD employees in handling forest and land fires show varied answers, be it "very good",
"good", "not good", "not good" and "very bad". . Positive responses consisting of answers "very good" and
"good" amounted to 81.5% of all respondents' answers. This positive response was much greater than the
negative response given by respondents which was only 18.5%, which consisted of the answers "not good"
(16.0%), "not good" (2.1%) and "very not. good ”(0.4%).
The total value of the weighted factors obtained from the calculations that have been done previously is 4.2.
This value is included in the criteria N> 3 (average / mean value), which means that the performance of
Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) employees in handling forest and land firesin Berau Regency
is good. So it can be concluded to reject the hypothesis in this study, which states that the performance of
BPBD employees in handling forest and land fires in Berau Regency is not good.