LIRNEasia » Indonesia\’s National Coordinating Agency for Disaster http://lirneasia.net a regional ICT policy and regulation think tank active across the Asia Pacific Fri, 25 May 2012 02:42:29 +0000 en hourly 1 Indonesia disaster preparedness a work in progress http://lirneasia.net/2007/10/indonesia-disaster-preparedness-a-work-in-progress/ http://lirneasia.net/2007/10/indonesia-disaster-preparedness-a-work-in-progress/#comments Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:26:33 +0000 Udu-gama http://www.lirneasia.net/2007/10/indonesia-disaster-preparedness-a-work-in-progress/ Indonesia has learnt lessons from dealing with a string of earthquakes, but still can do more to reduce the impact of such disasters by quake proofing buildings and deploying more tsunami buoys, officials said on Wednesday.

An official at Indonesia’s National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management said there had been progress in educating people since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that followed a huge quake off Aceh province and killed nearly 170,000 Indonesians.

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