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Community-based disaster management has yet to become a popular notion in Indonesia, says Verdinand Robertua, a lecturer in international relations at the Christian University of Indonesia (UKI) and researcher in UKI’s Centre for Security and Foreign Affairs (CESFAS). In his opinion piece for the Jakarta Post, he calls upon the Indonesian National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, BNPB, to include tangible activities regarding women and children...

'Future vulnerability toward coastal disasters and climatic extremes is being laid down today. When extreme weather or new tsunamis are unleashed in the future, these coastal communities will become communal graveyards'

'Disaster-prone countries must plan and embed disaster risk management into their policies. Better planning can help reduce damage and loss of life, and prevention is far less costly than disaster relief and response,' writes Pamela Cox, World Bank Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific on the pages of Jakarta Post...

'The Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) is offering the city a solution for its long-standing flood problem by building underground reservoirs using Japanese technology.' As Jakarta does not have the green space to create rainwater catchments, new reservoirs will be created underground...

National Agency of Disaster Management (BNPB) deputy for emergency response Dody Ruswandi called for efforts to reduce dangers to involve all of the Indonesian people at a Model United Nations simulation (MUN) event on disaster management...

'Our study suggests that despite limitations in terms of scale, it is clear that community-based microfinance can be an alternative tool not only for reducing household vulnerability to floods and inundation but it can also be used as strategic tool for risk reduction and adaptation elsewhere'...

'The support and assistance provided by the German government has become the core of the InaTEWS system, which has proven to be effective in delivering early tsunami warnings in the country,' said Indonesian Transportation Minister EE Mangindaan...

The Australian government will help Bali to strengthen its disaster management system. Australia has already been supporting disaster related human resources in Bali, have offered disaster management trainings to the Indonesian Red Cross, and there are plans to upgrade the Bali Emergency Center for Disaster Management...