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According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB, or Badan Nasional Penanggulanan Bencana), as many as 566 people were killed by natural disasters and displaced over 2.6 million in Indonesia in 2014. Almost all of the disasters were classified as hydro-meteorological events.
The following is a list of disasters in Indonesia that have had widespread effects or received substantial attention. It is split into natural and manmade disasters ...
In tsunami prone regions, strong earthquakes serve as familiar warnings, and this is especially true for earthquakes in Indonesia. Previous estimates of the tsunami hazard for the Java coastline may have minimized the risk to the area, and to the northwest along the Sumatran coast, the risk is substantially higher for tsunami, especially near ...
The Emirati embassy in Indonesia together with the Human Initiative handed over 200 units of permanent housing to earthquake victims in Cianjur. [136] European Union: The European Union provided €200,000 in assistance. Supported efforts by the Indonesian Red Cross in mobilizing relief items. Established mobile clinics and deployed ambulances.
The Sidoarjo mud flow (commonly known as Lumpur Lapindo, wherein lumpur is the Indonesian word for mud; and as Lusi (Lumpur Sidoarjo)) is the result of an erupting mud volcano [1] in the subdistrict of Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java, Indonesia that has been in eruption since May 2006.
It was established in 2008 to replace the National Coordinating Board for Disaster Management (Badan Koordinasi Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana or Bakornas PB). BNPB is directly responsible to the President of Indonesia and the chairman is directly appointed by the President. [2]
List of significant tsunamis in Indonesia Event Date Location Summary Notes 1797 Sumatra earthquake: 10 February 1797: Padang Tsunami localized to Padang, Sumatra, Indonesia 1833 Sumatra earthquake: 25 November 1833: Sumatra Tsunami along the southwest coast of Sumatra 1861 Sumatra earthquake: 16 February 1861: Sumatra
Antara was established on 13 December 1937 in Batavia (later Jakarta), the colonial capital of the Dutch East Indies. [4] Prior to its establishment, Dominique Willem Berretty had founded Aneta, the Indies' first news agency.