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Jakarta - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has allotted presidential aid funds for the construction of a fence in Way Kambas National Park, Lampung.
In response to Jakarta floods, Jakarta Smart City creates app to predict flooding through analysis of several types of data such as rainfall, hydrology and river flow.
A tsunami roared over the coast of Palu in 2018, now there are plans to construct a tsunami barrier to prevent Palu from being easily overrun in the future.
Budi Karya Sumadi, Indonesia's transportation minister, has announced that disaster mitigation has been integrated into the design of the upcoming New Yogyakarta International Airport, an important precaution considering it will only be 400 metres from Yogyakarta’s south beach coastline and susceptible to tsunamis.
Conflict and uncertainty have marred the fulfillment Jakarta's National Capital Integrated Coastal Development. With warnings that parts of North Jakarta may be permanently flooded by 2030, the government must settle disputes over its grand infrastructural aspirations and consider smaller but more effective solutions.
The Government of Indonesia is preparing an integrated disaster early warning system to be implemented in various institutions. The integrated system would improve the efficiency of disaster information. There is an increasing trend in economic losses due to natural disasters over the last 40 years.
Ahmad Heryawan, West Java Governor, said that he has prepared Rp75 billion in the Contingency Budget Post to anticipate the risks of disaster this year. 'It must be prepared every year. We have to prepare the budget if disaster happens,' he said, and added that similar budget is also being prepared by every district/municipality government to anticipate potential natural disasters...
'In 2010 alone, over 42 million people were displaced by disasters,' across the globe, the President said at the opening ceremony in the State Palace. 'We must safeguard Millennium Development Goals gains from setbacks from natural disasters,' he added, reports Tempo Interactive...
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