Community Based Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Towards Sustainable Livelihood: Ten Years Experiences PMPB Kupang

Community Based Approach to Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Towards Sustainable Livelihood: Ten Years Experiences From PMPB Kupang
Yulius Nakmofa dan Jonatan Lassa

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Masyarakat Sadar Bencana

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Opini Kompas, Jumat, 2 Oktober 2009 | 04:55 WIB

Jonatan Lassa

Riset sejarah Gregory Clancey dalam buku Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity, 1868-1930 terbitan University of California Press 2006 merefleksikan Jepang sebagai bangsa gempa.

Istilah ”Jepang sebagai bangsa gempa” pertama kali muncul bukan karena gempa yang melahirkan petaka. Sebaliknya, meningkatnya kesadaran tentang gempa di kalangan akademisi dan birokrat Jepang, berujung pada reputasi ”Jepang bangsa gempa”, terjadi akibat publikasi John Milne akhir 1886 berjudul Catalogue of 8331 Earthquakes hasil uji coba seismometernya sendiri.

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Evaluation of Disaster Governance in Indonesia 2004-2006

Old paper on Evaluation of Disaster Governance in Indonesia 2004-2006. The content is in Bahasa. Please download the file from here. Download

Linking Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction

I am happy to share two recognition of works of my folks in West Timor in the ISDR Publication in 2007 and 2008.

Clean water as an entry point to risk reduction and poverty alleviation - By Community Association for Disaster Management (PMPB) Kupang. In UNISDR 2008 "Linking Disaster Risk Reduction and Poverty Reduction Good Practices and Lessons Learned A Publication of the Global Network of NGOs for Disaster Risk Reduction." Page 28-32. Download

Also See PMPB Kupang work on "Combining Science and Indigenous Knowledge to Build a Community Early Warning System." By PMPB Kupang- Community Association for Disaster Management (In partnership with Yayasan Pikul). In Building Disaster Resilient Communities Good Practices and Lessons Learned A Publication of the “Global Network of NGOs” for Disaster Risk Reduction. In Page 26-28. Download

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No more fish in the sea

Is it a disaster?

No more fish in the sea Mar 2nd 2009 From Economist.com

The global fish catch is levelling off

WORLD fish production hit 143.6m tonnes in 2006, the highest since records began in 1950, according to a new biannual report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation. Just over 110m tonnes was eaten by people, with the rest used as animal feed or for other commercial uses. Some 47% of fish on dinner plates is now farmed, and this is likely to increase as the amount caught in the wild levels off. The catch in 2006 from marine and inland waters fell to 92m tonnes from 94.2m the previous year. China is the world's biggest producer in both categories, landing 17.1m tonnes of fish from its waters, and farming 34.4m tonnes.

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The DNA Code of Risk

Please download the full paper (final version March 2009) entitled "The DNA Code of Risk Has TWO Intertwined Strands: Why Vulnerability Matters. A Civil Society Response to the Draft Guidelines for Disaster Risk Assessment in Indonesia."

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Feeling better, doing worse?

By Jonatan Lassa, Bonn, Thu, 02/26/2009 Opinion, the Jakarta Post.

There is an increasing trend of social economic losses in "natural" disasters due to the rising number of natural hazard incidents together with the increasingly vulnerable population in Indonesia.

The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) jointly with Leuven Catholic University's Center for Research on Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) reported recently that 2008 showed an increase in the number of deaths and economic losses compared to the 2000-2007 yearly average.

The recent 7.2-magnitude earthquake (S.R.) in the Talaud Islands regency in North Sulawesi, that caused hundreds of injuries and damage to 500 buildings according to the national media, show one important lesson. The people not only live in a vulnerable environment in regard to housing and infrastructure but also lack the infrastructure to react quickly to the warning of a potential tsunami.

We witness floods in many pro-vinces in Indonesia today, which cause losses and damage to livelihood, life and infrastructure, coming together with "the unpleasant guests" such as dengue, malaria and diarrhea (see The Jakarta Post , Feb. 14). Hence, one may be wrong asserting that Indonesia is not moving forward to reduce disaster risks amid the increasing trend of disaster risks.

On the other hand, one may share the optimistic view, asserting that Indonesia is getting better, or far better, at disaster risk management today than in the past. In terms of laws and regulations concerning disaster risks, under the auspices of the National Disaster Management Law 24/2007, followed by various ancillary regulations such as the set up of the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) through Presidential Regulation 8/2008 and the government regulation for Disaster Management Implementation 21/2008, Indonesia has gained new momentum for a better risk management policy.

But why do many people feel worse when the government is doing better in anticipating natural disasters? This question was once asked by Aaron Wildavsky in 1977 within the United States' context in his famous paper Doing Better and Feeling Worse: The Political Patho-logy of Health Policy, published by MIT Press. It later became known as the Wildavsky paradox.

But in the Indonesian context today, the paradox can actually be reversed "why are we feeling better while actually we are not doing enough?"

For more: click here "Feeling better doing worse."