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'Indonesia should consider the fact that it is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it prone to disaster,' warned nuclear expert Yoichi Funabashi, while urging the Indonesian government to be cautious when considering to build nuclear plants in Indonesia...
'The city has extensive manuals for prevention and management of floods and fire, but hasn’t got a comprehensive guide for earthquakes,' Sugeng Triutomo, BNPB’s deputy head for disaster prevention and preparedness...
Japan’s Ambassador to Indonesia says that construction of earthquake-proof houses, tsunami early warning systems and information dissemination are crucial factors within disaster preparedness...
BNPB has produced plans of disaster risk areas at the provincial level, which local authorities can use to apply policies to minimize disaster’s impacts on urban areas and better protect their people against disasters...
'Bicycles can be an effective means of transportation to mitigate disaster and other activities. I hope they can play a big role in the field,' said Governor Fauzi Bowo...
The central government has also prepared a number of programs to mitigate the adverse impact of climate change which include education, capacity building and preparing a new school curriculum...
In their opinion for the Jakarta Post, Jonatan A. Lassa and Syamsidik present the Indonesian efforts to create a new and stronger research institution in disaster risk science following the tsunami in Aceh, namely the TDMRC (Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center)...
'Frankly speaking, even at the national level, we haven’t seen a concerted effort to integrate gender perspective in disaster-risk reduction policies, whereas it is very important to reduce women’s vulnerability during crises'...
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