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'I'm happy to inform that Indonesia is now building a peace-keeping and security center in West Java that could be used for training, education and cooperation for disaster management' said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, at a recent meeting of ASEAN nations ministers. An Indonesian delegation will attend the Global Platform...
The March 11 earthquake shows us that the procedures the Japanese authorities had in place for reducing risks paid off, even if casualty figures exceeding 10,000 suggest otherwise, reports Rohan Samarajiva, chairman and CEO of LIRNEasia, a Sri Lanka-based expert on early warning systems for natural disasters...
Next year, Indonesia will have a detailed map of disaster-prone areas in the country which is expected to help provincial administrations develop better urban planning for disaster mitigation, according to an official, reports Jakarta Globe...
Although traditional wisdom and hard-earned lessons enabled villagers to diminish the potentially disastrous consequences of flooding and landslides during the rainy season, residents are also getting a helping hand from NGOs and local groups to implement a community-based disaster risk reduction program throughout the district...
'It’s not the extreme weather that matters for Indonesia, but how prone we are,' said Armi Susandi, an Indonesian meteorological expert attending the climate talks in Cancun, stressing that although Indonesia had not experience extreme weather events such as typhoons and cyclones, 'it doesn’t mean that we’re not affected by them...
'If natural disasters are to a large extent unpredictable, the effects of such disasters can be anticipated' writes Teddy Lesmana, researcher at the Center for Economic Studies at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, proposing ways Indonesia could reduce the number of victims from natural hazards...
'We need schools to prepare the students to handle disasters', said Tito Setiawan, a spokesman for the Coordinating Ministry for People’s Welfare. 'We are going to work on how we can make this is as a part of curricula and implement it effectively.'...
Jan Egeland, director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and UN Emergency Relief coordinator from 2003 to 2006, stresses the need to invest in adequate risk reduction programmes in Haiti, once the relief operations are complete...
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