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'Comprehensive information is key to disaster preparedness' writes Arya Gunawan Usis advisor for Communication and Information at UNESCO's Tehran cluster office, highlighting the important role of the media in each of the phases related to natural hazards...
'Unnecessary delays in spending for risk reduction will eventually lead to bigger donor losses in the future. How many disasters are needed for our policy makers to realize the need to reduce disaster risks?' writes Jonatan Lassa, research fellow at Harvard University, in an opinion piece for the Jakarta Post...
A senior economist at the World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery suggested that a disaster insurance policy for the country would help reduce the economic cost of a major catastrophe, citing the example of the Caribbean region 'That’s a very successful example from the developing part of the world for countries having purchased insurance,' reports the Jakarta Post...
In a Jakarta Post report, BNBP’s director for disaster risk reduction asserted that investing in disaster mitigation programmes will save lives and minimize losses. Indonesia will allocate US$444 mil to disaster management in 2011, including education programmes. 'Children at school should know what they must do when disaster strikes...It should be taught across the country as part of the curriculum.'...
In this opinion, the chairman of the Indonesian Landscape Architecture Study Group calls for the public in general, government institutions and the private sector to work together to achieve sustainable urban development that relies on mitigation and adaptation in addressing climate-related disasters and climate change...
More than 30 hackers and software engineers from throughout Indonesia have been gathering in ventral Jakarta to participate in the Jakarta-leg of 'Random Hacks of Kindness' an event intended to create software solutions to reduce the loss of lives and property in disasters...
The newly formed Regional Disaster Mitigation Agengy (BPBD) will coordinate three main aspects of disaster management in Jakarta: prevention and building readiness against disasters; emergency response and logistic provision; and post-disaster rehabilitation and reconstruction reports Andreas D. Arditya for the Jakarta Post...
University of Bengkulu ecologist Yansen Bengkulu urges government and society-at-large to become better prepared in light of the recent disasters that have hit Indonesia saying, 'every component of this nation has to take shared but different responsibilities'...
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