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Walking the Last Mile: Contributions to the Development of an End-to-End Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia

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Early Warning for Geological Disasters

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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 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), contributed to the learning and innovation process with a strong focus on tsunami preparedness at the community level during the implementation phase of InaTEWS. The lessons learned as well as the tested and validated procedures resulting from this innovative process have been documented and are currently being extended to make them available nationwide. Experiences from the pilot phase show that there is still a great need to strengthen the capacity of national government institutions, local governments and civil society in order to provide the services necessary for sustainable tsunami preparedness. Key points for the way ahead are building a better understanding of the system, the warning service and the contents of warnings, strengthening the role of local disaster-management agencies and governments as well as the institutionalization of early warning at all levels and to systematically scaling up the successful experiences from pilot areas.

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Abbreviations

BMKG:

Badan Meteorologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (National Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics)

BNPB:

Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (National Disaster Management Agency)

BPBD:

Badan Penanggulangan Bencana Daerah (Local Disaster Management Agency)

CBDRM:

Community-based disaster-risk management

CD:

Compact Disc

CIDA:

Canadian International Development Agency

COMPRESS:

Community Preparedness

CSO:

Civil society organisation

DMO:

Disaster management organization

DRR:

Disaster risk reduction

GFZ:

German Research Centre for Geosciences

GITEWS:

German-Indonesian Cooperation for a Tsunami Early Warning System

GIZ/GTZ:

German International Cooperation (since 2011) / German Technical Cooperation (prior to 2011)

GPS:

Global Positioning System

ICG IOTEWS:

Intergovernmental Coordination Group for the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System

IFRC:

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

InaTEWS:

Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System

INGO:

International non-governmental organisation

IOC:

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission

ITIC:

International Tsunami Information Centre

JTIC:

Jakarta Tsunami Information Centre

Kemdiknas:

Kementerian Pendidikan Nasional (Ministry of Education)

KOGAMI:

Komunitas Siaga Tsunami (a local NGO in Padang)

LIPI:

Lembaga Ilmu Pengetahuan Indonesia (Indonesian Institute of Sciences)

NGO:

Non-governmental organisation

NTB:

West Nusa Tenggara province

NTWC:

National Tsunami Warning Centre

PROTECTS:

Project for Training, Education and Consulting for a Tsunami Early Warning System

SOP:

Standard operating procedure

TDMRC:

Tsunami Disaster Management and Research Centre

TEW:

Tsunami Early Warning

TIC:

Tsunami Information Centre

UN:

United Nations

UNESCAP:

United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

UNESCO:

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNISDR:

United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

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  1. GIZ International Services, Jakarta, Indonesia

    H. Spahn & H. Dwi Vidiarina

  2. GIZ, Eschborn, Germany

    M. Hoppe

  3. JTIC, Jakarta, Indonesia

    A. Kodijat

  4. LIPI, Jakarta, Indonesia

    I. Rafliana

  5. GIZ International Services, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

    B. Usdianto

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  1. Geophysical Institute, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Friedemann Wenzel

  2. Section 2.1 Earthquake Risk and Early Wa, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam, Germany

    Jochen Zschau

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Spahn, H., Hoppe, M., Kodijat, A., Rafliana, I., Usdianto, B., Vidiarina, H.D. (2014). Walking the Last Mile: Contributions to the Development of an End-to-End Tsunami Early Warning System in Indonesia. In: Wenzel, F., Zschau, J. (eds) Early Warning for Geological Disasters. Advanced Technologies in Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12233-0_10

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