Past disaster eventsEM-DAT listing of disaster events in IndonesiaDisaster statistics from UN-ISDR and CREDRisk country profile from Index for Risk Management Damage and losses statistics from Disaster Information Management SystemsDisaster response and management data from ReliefWebGovernment policiesHFA Progress Reports, government plans, and government statements – http://www.unisdr.org/partners/countries/idnRed Cross + civil societyIFRC appeals and info bulletins for Indonesia
Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, is prone to natural disasters such as floods and fires. The World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction & Recovery (GFDRR) and the Jakarta Disaster Management Agency held a competition to gather ideas on how information technology can be used in disaster situations. – World Bank, 2014
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Asian Disaster Management News Vol. 21 (2015) This edition of Asian Disaster Management News focuses on early warning systems. It includes over 7 diferent articles, including case study on Flood Early Warning Systems as a Climate Resilience Measure in Indonesia. Asian Disaster Management News Vol. 21 (2015) on Flood Early Warning Systems
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Songs of the Rainy Season or Nyanyian Musim Hujan is a film developed by the Indonesian Red Cross and Australian Red Cross with disaster preparedness messages on floods and landslides. The film is a sequel to Message from the Ocean or Pesan dari Samudra, a 2012 feature film on how to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis. Both films
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Message from the Ocean or Pesan dari Samudra, is a 2012 feature film on how to prepare for earthquakes and tsunamis developed by the Indonesian Red Cross and Australian Red Cross. Message from the Ocean was followed in 2015 by Songs of the Rainy Season or Nyanyian Musim Hujan, with disaster preparedness messages on floods and landslides. Both films
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We could not turn down the opportunity to head to Jogja during the Merapi eruption in November 2010 to video shoot for the Indonesian & Spanish Red Cross on Water and Sanitation during disaster. We knew that moments like these are priceless. The objective of creating these communication tools was to educate and bring awareness
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Pacitan is the first district in Indonesia to successfully achieve Open Defecation Free (ODF) status through the Total Sanitation and Sanitation Marketing program or STMB Program. This video illustrates STBM implementation that emphasized empowerment, participation, and community behavior change process.
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This 4-min video overview of the sanitation business model in Indonesia illustrates a one-stop shop sanitation business model targeted at entrepreneurs and other stakeholders. The video animation follows Mr. Budi, a sanitation entrepreneur who produces healthy toilet facilities at an affordable price. Mr. Budi’s experience highlights steps needed to become a successful sanitation entrepreneur, such
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One of the research projects at the Zugspitze comes as a surprise to most visitors. Scientists from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are working on GRIPS ,a device designed to improve tsunami early warning systems.The early warning system that Germany helped install in the Indian Ocean last year has a network of sensors at the
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R3ADY Asia-Pacific, in collaboration with University of Gadjah Mada (UGM), Pacific Disaster Center (PDC), and University of Hawai’i’s Social Science Research Institute (SSRI), is working to develop an end-to-end framework that better links community-based and national disaster risk reduction efforts, using UGM’s community-based landslide risk assessment and landslide early warning system as the case study.
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For tsunami early warning system InaTEWS (Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System), on 11 November 2008 was officially opened, Germany has contributed significantly. The German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) has developed a Decision Support System (DSS) was developed. The DLR webcast shows how the information for quick and safe
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