Banten Tsunami Drill

After the possibility of tsunami was declared by the local authority, people rushed to a safer place based on evacuation map.

We were there

Pak Hamzah, Pak Djoko, Bu Velly and me participated in the Banten Tsunami Drill. Pak Dwinanta and Bu Irina were also there.

Tsunami Victims (Simulation)

Simulation to handle tsunami victims was also demonstrated at the tsunami drill.

Tsunami Awareness for Kids (sent by Irina)

Evacuation Map (Padang) sent by Irina

Tsunami Public Awareness (sent by Irina)

LIPI's Profile

LIPI – COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS (COMPRESS) PROFILE

The Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) is a non departement of government agencies, which given the mandate to facilitate public education and community preparedness for natural disasters in Indonesia. In the context of the INA-TEWS, LIPI is the focal point for community preparedness – the culture component of the system, as well as conducting researches related with the structure component of the system(e.g: risk and vulnerability assessments).

As one of the proposed CBU member, the current responsibility of LIPI aside conducting related research and assessments is also mainly in forms of public education and community preparedness. This position entitles the development of research and assessments results into means of public education materials as well as activities. Geophysics, social economics researches results are among the sources of information to be translated, in designing science-based community preparedness. In the next two or three years, the demand of public education for science-based community preparedness will increase, with a gradual shift to local government leading roles. This is highly important, since the development of InaTEWS will be launched on 2008, while community preparedness will remain continued to no end. The success of a warning system will highly depend on community preparedness.

The ongoing and future training needs for community preparedness capacity building programs among others are as follow:

Ongoing capacity building:

1. Internal: Disaster Management, Introduction to Advocacy and Conflict Management, Public Communication, Basic Knowledge on Risk Assessments, Liquefaction Studies, Social Economic and Community Preparedness Assessment, Palaeotsunami Studies, Geophysics and Infrastructure Studies, Event organizing

2. External: Need-based Training Initiatives, Training for different focal stakeholders based on research findings, crisis communication in natural disasters, effective information dissemination, Integration of school, community and local authorities’ Standard Operational Procedures

Future training needs:

1. Internal: Integrating research results (e.g tsunami inundation models, risk maps) to different community preparedness end products (e.g: sign boards, bill boards, community based evacuation maps, posters, etc), advanced crisis communication (communicating bottom up and top down warning information), Conflict resolution, Advanced Information Dissemination

2. External: Advocacy and Conflict Management, Risk, Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment, Designing Evacuation maps, billboard and signboards, Advanced crisis communication ( system, tools, signs, command chain, communication, responses tested and legally supported), design and assess appropriate and scientifically proven shelters, evacuation routes, earthquake-proof buildings, etc

Irina Rafliana

Public Education Coordinator

Program Kesiapsiagaan Masyarakat – Compress (Community Preparedness) LIPI

Jl. Raden Saleh No. 43 Jakarta 10330

Telp (+62 21 3143080)

Fax & Telp (+62 21 3901214)

Mail to: irina@coremap.or.id

Mobile: 0813 10 332282