Indonesia leading the way on open-source and interoperable risk data

This case study belongs to a compendium of good practices and success stories in disaster risk reduction shared during the 2025 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2025). These stories reflect the real-world progress being made by governments, communities, and organizations around the world to reduce risk and build resilience.

Indonesia’s open data risk platform is a pioneering initiative puts usable data at the heart of local and national planning. The platform embodies a people-centered approach: it bridges national and local information systems, ensuring that climate and hazard data flow freely between levels of governance. By promoting transparency and interoperability, it supports inclusive decision-making and strengthens resilience at every scale globalplatform.undrr.org.

This initiative builds on Indonesia’s earlier innovations, particularly the InaSAFE platform—an open-source tool developed with BNPB, GFDRR, the World Bank, and others. InaSAFE enabled local governments to simulate disaster impacts and craft realistic contingency plans by combining scientific, local government, and community data 

The new open data system takes this a step further by integrating geospatial, climate, and socio-economic data into a single, publicly accessible interface. Local authorities can overlay hazard maps with data on population density, critical infrastructure, and social vulnerability to identify high-risk areas. Communities can also access relevant, easy-to-understand information to support preparedness at the household level.

Indonesia is demonstrating that open, shared, and actionable risk data can be a cornerstone of effective, inclusive, and equitable disaster risk reduction.

Source: Shared at the High Level Dialogue 1 by Speaker H.E. Raditya Jati, Government of Indonesia