INDOSASTERS

Masyarakat Sadar Bencana

2009-10-02T14:46:00.000-07:00

Masyarakat Sadar BencanaOpini Kompas, Jumat, 2 Oktober 2009 | 04:55 WIBJonatan LassaRiset 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,

Evaluation of Disaster Governance in Indonesia 2004-2006

2009-05-01T06:34:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-21T07:20:00.000-07:00

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

No more fish in the sea

2009-03-02T11:56:00.000-08:00

Is it a disaster? No more fish in the sea Mar 2nd 2009 From Economist.comThe global fish catch is levelling offWORLD 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

The DNA Code of Risk

2009-02-28T03:58:00.000-08:00

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." Download Full Paper: The DNA Code of Risk

Feeling better, doing worse?

2009-02-26T03:59:00.000-08:00

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

Cost and Benefit Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia

2009-02-10T03:08:00.000-08:00

A Contribution to IDEA Jogja’s Research on Participatory Cost and Benefit Analysis for Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesian Districts: Towards Participatory DRR Budgeting. The IDEA report is forthcoming in 2009Please download from HERE

The Disaster of Jokes and the Jokes of Disaster

2009-02-10T02:25:00.000-08:00

Disaster of Jokes and Joke of Disaster: Towards Fuller Understanding of the Risk context!Please download from: Here

Our starving children

2009-01-23T23:59:00.000-08:00

Published in The Jakarta Post Business and Investment - January 23, 2009Jonatan Lassa, BonnJust recently, this newspaper reported 11 children died of acute malnutrition in Kupang, West Timor within just three weeks. Four of them were from an ex-East Timor refugee camp in Kupang district (The Jakarta Post, Jan. 15).The story of the mortality of the 11 children was "fortunate" in being seized upon

New Publication on Interdisciplinarity Concepts

2009-01-19T05:23:00.000-08:00

Dear readers, I would like to share two recent papers on interdisciplinarity concept available for download. Best, JLThe Rational Organisation of Dissent. Boundary concepts, boundary objects and boundary settings in the interdisciplinary study of natural resources management By Peter P. Mollinga, 2008, ZEF Working Paper 33, University of Bonn.Interdisciplinarity, Problem Focused Research and

Measuring the sustainability of tsunami early warning systems: an interdisciplinary research agenda

2008-12-09T17:56:00.000-08:00

*Title: Measuring the sustainability of tsunami early warning systems: an interdisciplinary research agenda*Georisk: Assessment and Management of Risk for Engineered Systems and Geohazards, Volume 2 Issue 4 2008Author: J. A. LassaLink: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a906252186~db=all~order=pageAbstract Measuring the sustainability of any hazard early warning system (EWS)

When Heaven (hardly) Meets the Earth: Towards Convergency in Tsunami Early Warning Systems

2008-12-01T03:59:00.000-08:00

When Heaven (hardly) Meets the Earth: Towards Convergency in Tsunami Early Warning SystemsJonatan A. Lassa##BIGS DR ZEF, University of Bonn, Germany & Institute of NTT Studiesjonatan.lassa@uni-bonn.de or jonatan.lassa@gmail.comAbstract— The people at risks, the end-users of warning services, are the raison d'etre of tsunami early warning systems (TEWS) and not the technology. Therefore, central

Warning system is about people

2008-11-26T21:01:00.000-08:00

Warning system is about peopleJonatan Lassa , Bonn | Thu, 11/27/2008 11:04 AM | OpinionCan scientists create an Early Warning System (EWS) for the Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS)? Can an early warning system have an early warning system of its own, alerting the beneficiaries of such things as its failures, effectiveness, efficiency and if there is an absence of system sustainability?Can

AusAID DRR Facility for Indonesia: A$67 Million

2008-11-25T23:05:00.000-08:00

FYIMEDIA RELEASE - PRIME MINISTER, MR KEVIN RUDDAA 24 November 2008Australia-Indonesia Disaster Reduction Facility AnnouncedThe Prime Minister of Australia and the President of Indonesia, leaders of the two economies co-chairing the APEC Taskforce on Emergency Preparedness, met today to discuss regional disaster coordination – one of the themes of the current APEC Leaders' meeting in Peru.Both

Menuju Rumah Sakit Indonesia Yang Aman Bencana

2008-11-14T20:37:00.000-08:00

Opini: Menuju Rumah Sakit Indonesia Yang Aman BencanaJonatan Lassa*Tema Hari Bencana Dunia yang jatuh pada 8 Oktober 2008 adalah ‘Rumah Sakit Bebas Dari Bencana.’ Analisis tentang Rumah Sakit kerap menjadi isu rutin, kalau bukan marginal dalam pembangunan di banyak Negara berkembang. Terlampau ‘berlimpah’ bukti empirik untuk menjadikan Rumah Sakit sebagai lokus mitigasi dan pengurangan risiko

BRIEF REPORT on Vernacular Disaster Risk Management in Indonesia

2008-11-04T21:58:00.000-08:00

BRIEF REPORT on Vernacular Disaster Risk Management in Indonesia Jonatan Lassa *One of the most important messages in the 4th Community Based Disaster Risk Management Conference (CBDRM) in Bali, 19-21 August 2008, is the need to conceptualize vernacular disaster risk management in Indonesia. Dr. Syamsul Ma'arif, the head of National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB) pleaded Indonesian experts and

One More Impact of Climate Change: Longer Days (Literally)

2008-04-24T02:36:00.000-07:00

One More Impact of Climate Change: Longer Days (Literally) - From Discovery.com. Picture: Discovery.com.Keren Blankfeld Schultz at Scientific American has an interesting report on the effects of severe weather on the length of a single day, or the total time it takes Earth to rotate once on its axis. As it turns out, the speed of the planet’s rotation is determined by the amount of mass across

Shock Doctrine: An Excerpt from the Introduction

2008-04-09T05:54:00.000-07:00

From book titled The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster CapitalismShock Doctrine: An Excerpt from the Introduction Diterjemahkan bebas dari artikel oleh Oleh Shelly W.M (PO DM Hivos Aceh) Saya bertemu Jamal Perry pertama kalinya pada bulan September 2005, di sebuah penampungan besar milik Red Cross di Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Makan malam disajikan oleh seorang scientologist muda yang selalu

What happens if China’s “one child” is left behind?

2008-03-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

Robert Engelman – March 3, 2008 – 1:36pm Based on a senior official’s remarks, it looks like China may soon relax its one-child policy. That has raised fears among some demographers that the country will experience a massive baby boom once the reproductive shackles come off, and hence “could overturn

Challenging China's Climate Change Babies

2008-03-05T07:29:00.000-08:00

Excuses, inaction only add to global warming burden Opinion - October 02, 2007 Jakarta Post Jonathan LassaChina recently claimed its "one-child policy", forcibly imposed three decades ago, had prevented 300 million births (a figure equal to the population of the United States), and consequently had helped to fight global warming. In other words,

Politik Lumpur Sidoarjo, Ilmiah Saja Tidak Cukup [teropong kompas]

2008-03-02T19:18:00.000-08:00

Sabtu, 1 Maret 2008 | 02:49 WIB Yuti Ariani“Itu perlu suatu penelitian yang mendalam. Saya kira tidak bisa dinyatakan secara politik (oleh DPR). Bencana alam atau bukan, itu bukan masalah politis.” Wapres Muhammad Jusuf Kalla (Kompas, 19/2)Penelitian penyebab semburan lumpur Lapindo di Kabupaten Sidoarjo membagi ilmuwan menjadi dua kubu, yakni yang berpendapat akibat bencana alam dan kesalahan

Lumpur Lapindo, Lumpurnya Tuhan? - Opini Kompas

2008-02-29T14:36:00.000-08:00

Lumpur Lapindo, Lumpurnya "Tuhan"?Kamis, 28 Februari 2008 | 02:41 WIB Picture: THOMDEAN /Kompas Images - Lumpur Lapind0Oleh Jonatan LassaWithout correct words, there will be no correct practice. (Dombrowsky)Rabi Greenberg menuturkan kisah lucunya tahun 1950-an di New York City yang dilanda musim kering dan pemerintah membuat awan buatan sebagai awal teknologi hujan buatan.Hal ini menyebabkan

EPISTIMOLOGI JARINGAN CSOs INDONESIA (Kasus Aceh)

2008-02-14T07:06:00.000-08:00

[Konteks CSOs di Aceh, Indonesia] [1] oleh Jonatan Lassa[2]“Adalah krusial bagi organisasi-organisasi masyarakat sipil untuk mampu melepaskan diri dari kartel-kartel[3] maupun jejaring sosial pro-status quo…………….. Kemampuan tersebut salah satunya harus bertumpu pada adanya visi yang

Making (accurate predictions of) waves (Physorg.com)

2008-02-02T10:48:00.000-08:00

28 January 2008 Tsunami propagation pattern from earthquake west of Sumatra island, Indonesia. Credit: USC Tsunami Research Center/Northwestern UniversityA new review of tsunami hazards concludes that the 2004 catastrophe was far from the worst possible in many Indian Ocean borderlands -- and notes that warning systems to guard at-risk populations are still lagging. Costas Synolakis, director of

Working Papers Bencana from NTT

2008-02-01T13:25:00.000-08:00

Working Paper Bencana- NTT Studies (©IITTS Publications)Working Paper 9 (February 2008) Lexand Ofong, Yoseph Boli, Yus Nakmofa "Menggagas Pembangunan NTT Dalam Perspektif "Disaster Risk Management" DownloadWorking Paper 8 (February 2008) John Campbell Nelson "Religion and Disasters: A Critical Reflection Post Alor Earthquake 2004." IITTS Publications! DownloadPerangkat untuk