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Indonesia enters 2021 with abnormal natural disasters 6th February 2021
Illustration - Several rescue workers using heavy-duty equipment searched for victims of January 15, 2021 earthquake at Mitra Manakarra hospital in Mamuju, West Sulawesi, that collapsed during the quake (ANTARA FOTO/ Akbar Tado/hp.) As a country located in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Indonesia is prone to natural disasters such as volcano eruption, earthquake, and tsunami, and hence its residents must be prepared for that.
Moreover, the world’s largest archipelagic country is strategically located between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, that could induce extreme wet (La Nina) or dry seasons (El Nino) weather and ocean-related phenomena that could trigger flooding, drought and forest fires.
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15:30 WITA Protection for the Elderly, Disability, and Other Vulnerable Groups Sub Cluster (Sub Klaster LDR) - Coordination Meeting of Sub Klaster LDR. Application: Zoom Meeting (https://zoom.us/j/96292295714?pwd=QVlmdkhueVNEQm11UlpDSU0vWmwxZz09 or Meeting ID: 962 9229 5714, or Passcode: 085047). CP: Rinto Andriono (https://wa.me/628122734359).
15:30 WITA Volunteer Desk of West Sulawesi - Daily Coordination Meeting of Volunteer Desk and Capacity Building for NGOs and volunteer organizations. Agenda: 1. Reports of each organization representative: Volunteer Desk Coordinator, 2. Knowledge Sharing with psychosocial themes to increase the capacity of volunteers at disaster sites, especially in IDP camps with the Covid-19 pandemic conditions by Dicky Pelupessy, PhD, (Faculty of Psychology of University of Indonesia and Strategic Advisory Group of Psychosocial Support Sub Cluster), and 3. Update from Volunteer Desk: Prof. Kartini and the Volunteer Desk Support Team. Meeting location
197 natural disasters struck Indonesia during January 1-23 24th January 2021
An aerial view of earthquake-hit West Sulawesi. January 2021. Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia had been stricken by a total of 197 natural disasters during the January 1-23 period, according to data of the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).
Most of those disasters were hydrometeorological disasters, the agency wrote on its official Twitter account on Saturday.
The disasters comprising 134 floods, 31 landslides, and 24 whirlwinds, claimed 184 lives, injured, 2,700 people, rendered nine people missing, and affected or displaced 1.9 million people.
In January 2020, during the same period, BNPB recorded 297 disasters affecting across Indonesia, particularly massive flooding in Jakarta and surrounding areas, and claiming 91 lives.