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Govt highlights importance of forming disaster resilient villages

The Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture highlighted the importance of forming disaster resilient ...

Integrated livestock evacuation in volcano disaster mitigation

The series of activities for the commemoration of Disaster Preparedness Day (HKB) in April 2022, for the first time, ...

GPDRR 2022

Strengthening disaster mitigation through Disaster SNI implementation

- as the spearhead of disaster mitigation, as well as with local governments. "The role of BSN is more of a ...

23 national standards developed to manage disasters in 11 years: BSN

The National Standardization Agency (BSN) has developed and determined 23 national standards (SNIs) for managing ...

RI includes livestock evacuation in disaster management measures

The government of Indonesia, on National Disaster Preparedness Day on Tuesday, incorporated livestock evacuation as a ...

GPDRR 2022

BNPB readies preparedness agendas as 2022 GPDRR approaches

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) is readying several preparedness agendas as the 2022 Global Platform for ...

Govt establishes 854 disaster resilient villages , 208 social shelters

The Ministry of Social Affairs has established 854 Disaster Resilient Villages (KSB) and 208 social shelters to ...

Infrastructure development should not increase disaster risk: Jokowi

Infrastructure development should reduce the disaster risk rather than increase it, according to President Joko Widodo ...

President urges Basarnas to intensify collaboration

President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) urged the National Search and Rescue Agency (Basarnas) to strengthen collaboration and ...

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Preparing disaster-resilient community in earthquake-prone Indonesia

Earthquakes are common in parts of Indonesia, the world's largest archipelagic nation located in the Pacific Ring ...

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Indonesia braces for hydro-meteorological disasters

With about 17 thousand islands scattered across the Indian-Pacific Ocean, the world’s largest archipelagic ...

Mitigation efforts after Banten quake

According to the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the 6.6-magnitude earthquake which struck ...

La Nina in Central Sulawesi to end in June 2022

The Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysics Agency has projected the La Nina phenomenon, which started in November ...

Banten earthquake inflicted damage in 166 villages: Minister Effendy

The 6.6-magnitude earthquake that rattled Banten Province on Friday, January 14, caused damage to 166 villages in 48 ...

Gov't must push formation of disaster-resilient villages: academic

Local governments must continue to intensify mitigation programs through the establishment of disaster-resilient ...