Dozens killed as flash floods and cold lava flow hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island
IndependentDEC 2023
While Indonesia is increasingly disaster-prone, the government has acknowledged this risk and sought to address it financially. Between 2014 and 2018, 1.9% of the government spending was allocated to disaster response and recovery. Acknowledging that the cost of disasters in terms of lives lost and property and infrastructure loss was increasing the government took the initiative to develop a strategy for alternative funding to thwart the disruption of funding to other critical sectors such as health and ed
Urban flooding in Indonesia increases in frequency annually and results in the deaths of hundreds of people. Instead of investing in multi-hazard large-scale risk reduction projects, the national and subnational governments have allowed politics to infiltrate systems of logic. Instead of creating forceful and impactful policies for flood management, the disadvantaged and impoverished are forced to suffer. Change starts at the local level where officials must commit to strong policies that are built on commu
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