Triple trouble in Indonesia : strengthening Jakarta’s disaster preparedness

• Main Authors: Irene A Kuntjoro, Sofiah Jamil
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/91893; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/6686
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The recent back-to-back disasters in Indonesia highlight the difficulties in ensuring effective early warning systems, complexity in coordination and ultimately the lack of local capacity to respond to the challenges when national assistance is stretched thinly across simultaneous disasters.