Disaster Risk Reduction Governance Training Series
The Indonesian region is a disaster “supermarket”, in other words, there is no region that has no potential for disaster threats. Data on disaster events and impacts show several dominant disaster threats in Indonesia, namely (1) earthquakes and tsunamis, (2) landslides/landslides, (3) volcanic eruptions, (4) floods and (5) droughts.
Several areas have high potential for disaster threats. The potential threat of earthquake disasters occurs in 22 provinces with 184 districts/cities. The potential threat of tsunami disasters is predicted to occur in 16 provinces with 60 districts/cities. The threat of volcanic eruptions is in 17 provinces with 79 districts/cities. Meanwhile, 24 provinces with 152 districts/cities have a high potential threat of drought disasters.
Then for the threat of flood disasters, it has high potential to occur in almost all regions of Indonesia, namely in 30 provinces with 174 districts/cities. The threat of landslides or better known as landslides has the potential to occur in 24 provinces covering 154 districts/cities.2 Other disaster threats such as; tornadoes, forest and housing fires, abrasion, technological failures and social conflicts also often occur in several regions in Indonesia.





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