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Triple trouble In Indonesia: Strengthening Jakarta's disaster preparedness

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Recent disasters in Indonesia have emphasised the difficulties in ensuring effective early warning systems and highlight the importance of disaster management among communities and at all levels of government, write Irene A Kuntjoro and Sofiah Jamil, Associate Research Fellows at Nanyang Technological University.

'There is a need to alter public awareness from perceiving natural disasters as unmitigated and unpredictable events to internalising disaster risk reduction (DRR) and responses as part of their lives', assert the authors.

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Themes Community-based DRR Early warning Governance Disaster risk management
Country and region Indonesia
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