Irina Rafliana

• PhD Student at German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)

The most recent disaster events in Indonesia have been a major wakeup call for focusing more attention on disaster education. The task is not easy. The current development conditions, including population growth and environmental degradation increase the level of vulnerabilities of communities at risks (Ronan et al., 2005) against future disasters....

Effective science communication is essential for addressing the call that science needs to be more responsive to the needs of society. However, there are still gaps in understanding the role of science in reducing disaster risks and also strengthening the capacity of those at risk. Over the past decades, it is generally agreed that the physical and...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to analyse the reliability of Build Back Better slogan in the context of post-disaster housing reconstruction in developing countries, at enhancing disaster-resilience of housing and its occupants in the long term from socio-ecological systems resilience perspective. Design/methodology/approach A predominantly...

The world is presently under an emergency situation because of the COVID-19 global pandemic, caused by a novel coronavirus. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and is predicted to be affected significantly over a longer time period. Our paper aims to provide detailed reporting and analyses of the present rapid responses to CO...

Very large tsunamis are associated with low probabilities of occurrence. In many parts of the world, these events have usually occurred in a distant time in the past. As a result, there is low risk perception and a lack of collective memories, making tsunami risk communication both challenging and complex. Furthermore, immense challenges lie ahead...

The year 2024 marks two decades since the Indian Ocean tsunami, known as the Boxing Day catastrophe, which far surpassed other devastating geological events of the 21st‐century on humankind. Paradoxically, the epitome of tsunamis carries regenerative agency. It moves science and technologies across territories, proliferates knowledge production, an...

Transnational cooperation in the science and technology domain has been an integral part of global society. From the times when humans developed artefacts in the prehistoric age to colonialisation practices, the World Wars and beyond, and from managing global health issues to addressing regional and global natural disasters, science and technology...

Archipelagic identities have long patterned Indonesian historic imaginaries, collective memory, and its postcolonial modernist narratives on nation-building. This chapter examines and puts into conversation two distinct and interrelated concepts undergirding archipelagic thinking – ‘Nusantara’ and the lesser studied ‘Tanah Air’ – against speculativ...

A qualitative study on impact of pre-disaster public awareness activities on public readiness was conducted in the North and South Pagai Islands after the 25 October 2010 Mentawai earthquake. Parameters of readiness are public response to tsunami and the number of casualties. The results show that public awareness activities that commenced from 200...

Purpose This paper aims to identify key factors for a contextualised Systemic Risk Governance (SRG) framework and subsequently explore how systemic risks can be managed and how local institutional mechanisms can be tweaked to deal with the complex Indonesian risk landscape. Design/methodology/approach Using a case study from Palu triple-disasters...

This paper argues that there is a need to create new governing systems at the local level that allow actors and institutions to simultaneously manage the interplays of single and multi- hazards, multi-temporal, multiple dimensions of vulnerabilities, poverty reduction, unplanned urbanisation, environmental degradation, and other residual risks. The...

Tsunamis are unpredictable and infrequent but potentially large impact natural disasters. To prepare, mitigate and prevent losses from tsunamis, probabilistic hazard and risk analysis methods have been developed and have proved useful. However, large gaps and uncertainties still exist and many steps in the assessment methods lack information, theor...

This chapter provides an overview of Indonesian youth and young professionals’ (YYP) engagement in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and explores how the current national framework enables the environment for the YYP to best contribute to reducing disaster risks. DRR activities involving YYP have been growing for years. However, many of them are scatte...

The work of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on a Special Report on Emission Scenarios has pioneered the methods for greenhouse gas emission scenario associated with socio-economic development pathways in the coming century, followed by other models such as the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) in climate change and disaster ris...

The Sendai Framework, 2030 Agenda (including the SDGs) and Paris Agreements, along with 2016's Agenda for Humanity and New Urban Agenda, collectively underline the urgency for resilience building efforts. This paper probes the need for skill-sets and expertise that are ‘fit for purpose’ for advancing resilience under conditions of rapid change. It...

This paper outlines the process of formalizing Priority Action 4, “Build Back Better,” in recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. We propose this formalization by introducing the background and existing framework of recovery, rehabilitation, and reconstruction, a case-study of Post-War...

Integrating Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) into formal education and curricular has been suggested as one strategy to help increase knowledge and understanding of disaster risks. While there has been some initial progress in initiating DRR integration into the school curriculum in Indonesia, this is mostly limited to the national level. There are ho...

Isu kebencanaan masih belum banyak dikaji dalam disiplin ilmu sosial; seolah persoalan kebencaan dipandang sebatas fenomena alam dan tidak berkaitan dengan dinamika sosial; seolah korban kebencanaan hanya perlu dipulihkan kembali sementara proses pemulihan dan konsekuensinya luput dicermati. Peristiwa Tsunami Aceh pada tahun 2004, dengan besarnya j...

Establishing the Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia (InaTEWS) has been a process of learning and innovation. Three different initiatives, implemented by the German-Indonesian Cooperation for a Tsunami Early Warning System (GITEWS), the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesian—LIPI) and the United Nations Educatio...

Buku ini merupakan media berbagi pengalaman dan pembelajaran dari proses pengembangan radio untuk sosialisasi perubahan iklim bagi petani, nelayan, dan masyarakat umum. Radio dipilih karena peran radio sangat penting dalam melakukan sosialisasi perubahan iklim di Indonesia. Semakin berkembang program radio, semakin kuat kemampuan dan ketahanan sert...