23th August 2017 – Another day has passed and I gained new knowledge as this summer course almost comes to an end. I started my morning like the usual time, had usual breakfast menu and walked the same route to UGM. The 10th day of summer course started with the first session of the lecture on “Understanding Climate Change Problem” by Dr. Suko Prayitno Adi. He explained about some of the causes and effects of climate change which may contributes to natural disaster which it would increase the weather and climate hazards. Next contributes to increase in the vulnerability of communities to natural hazards. Some of the examples are ecosystem degradation, food availability and changes in livelihood. In his lecture, he mentioned about the adaptation through the risk reduction management and explained about the role of Hyogo framework in which disaster risk reduction management should be local and international priority along with strong institutional implementation. Furthermore, early warning systems are much needed to identify, asses and monitor on disaster occurrence possibility. Next, it is truly important to have the knowledge, innovation education to build a culture of safety and resilience at all level thus reduce the underlying factors. Lastly, it is a must to strengthen the disaster management for effective response.
Moving on to the second lecture by Dr. Wiwit Suryanto on Early Warning System for Earthquake and Volcano in Indonesia. Some of key elements in his lecture are disaster risk knowledge based on the collection of data and assessment, and forecasting of the hazards and consequences, dissemination and communication by an official source on accurate and actionable warnings and associated information on likelihood and impact. Lastly about preparedness at all levels to respond to the warnings received. He focused more on the early earthquake warning system ( included in multi hazard warning system) in which it uses earthquake science and the technology of monitoring systems to alert devices and people when shaking waves generated by an earthquake are expected to arrive at their location. This warning has its own benefits where a split second of info of earthquakes enable protective actions to some organisations such medical team, rescue team and power infrastructures. In January 6th 2005, The development of infrastructure for the Early Warning System in Indonesia (especially for Tsunami Warning Systems) was previously supported by UN. Furthermore, he also clarified about 3 different components in operating, mitigation and capacity. The lecture ended with slides about the visual monitoring on volcanic eruption activities.
We stopped the session to have a lunch break for an hour before proceeded with the third lecture. Next lecture talked about the mass movement based on RS-GIS software by Dr. Sandy Budi Wibowo. A bit of self-introduction done by Dr Sandy as he just graduated from France local university and worked as engineer previously before came back to Indonesia. In this lecture, he defined the meaning of mass movement as it was about downward and outward movement of slope –forming materials. Mass movement had its own importance such as prominent role in the analysis of landslide hazards. The initiation of mass movement was done in mountainous area. However, in some cases even though the experts predicted that there might be landslide to happen however the accuracy of it to occur was slight low thus made the local communities thought it as a false alarm. As for next topic, we proceeded with remote sensing basic concepts where it covered about the spatial resolution, temporal resolution, radiometric resolution, active and passive systems. For GIS basic concept it was about to monitor, capture and analyse the spatial data.
Last for not least, we went on to the next lecture on Adaptation Strategy of Forestry Sector for Disaster Risk Reduction conducted by Dr Hatma Suryatmojo. He told us that forestry sector can play a major role in disaster risk reduction management. Somehow, forest areas in Indonesia were mostly decreases each ear due to illegal logging and agriculture business expansion. By applying the silviculture treatment on intensive planting and harvest after 25 years rotation age. The practices of agroforestry system also proved that it helped in reducing the tendency of landslides to happen. At the end of the presentation, we were given a group assignment and presents it during the final day.
Sincerely by,
Cresency Umely Udin.