Disaster. The word is increasingly familiar in our ears. In fact, more and more people in this country have experienced it first hand. Data and facts show this.

Floods, earthquakes, water crises, deadly accidents, and fires plague rapidly growing cities in Indonesia. However, mitigation in these urban areas is still minimal.

A total of 414 local residents affected by a landslide have left Serasan Island, Natuna. The landslide has so far claimed 46 lives, while nine people remain missing.

Heavy rainfall and poor drainage systems have caused flooding across several areas in Bekasi, West Java, and Kudus, Central Java.

An analysis on built-up land compared with the spatial planning map has found rampant spatial violations in watershed areas (DAS) that pose a high risk to their inhabitants.

According to 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, “Human creativity can overcome many things. But we must be able to control it to reap the benefits.”

Persistent downpours have caused a landslide, isolating thousands of people in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara. Flooding has also inundated parts of Central Kalimantan and mines operated by Freeport in Papua.

Shallow earthquakes struck Jayapura up until Friday 7 p.m. Eastern Time Zone (WIT), with a total of five earthquakes hitting Papua’s capital city in the morning, afternoon and evening up until 5:54 p.m. WIT.