2014 Vol 1 January - May

Newsletter R E S E AR CH . K NOW LE DG E. RE S I L I E N C E

On Sunday 27th April 2014, RDI in collaboration with AFC International held a discussion forum about the acceptance

of microtakaful product targeting the local low income people in Bandung.

A Microtakaful Focus Group Discussion

to Increase Community Resilience

T he discussion forum was conducted by RDI’s Director (Elizabeth Rianawati) and AFC International’s Consultant, German (Marcel Pape). The discussion was also facilitated by RDI’s Fasili-

tator (Dodon Yamin, Alpian Angga Pratama, dan Ramanditya Wimbar-dana). This discussion forum aimed to gather information about demo-graphic condition of local low income people in Bandung and how do they use the fund that they have.

There were 16 low income people from 7 households that attended the discussion forum The discussion forum was divided into 3 section. For the

first section, the invited households were asked about the condition of their family, their living condition, home ownership, and their current job. Most of them are actually living in a house shared with other families, their home ownership itself are partly rent and partly heritage house. While the work of the participants is dominated by domestic servants, traders, and casual workers / daily rush.

The second section were focused on the expenditure and revenue of the participants. Based on the discussion that were led by Ramaditya Wimbar-dana and Marcel Pape, most of the participants are having an income with

the range of Rp. 750.000-1.100.000/month, where most of them expressed difficulty in fulfilling their daily needs like their children education, cost of medicine and other unexpected expenses. Surprisingly, based on Pape’s experience, the condition of the society in Germany is merely the same.

Thus, the third section discussed about the way how the participant cope with their financial problem. Pape was impressed with the way that the participant use to solve their financial problem, especially the cooperation

and mutual help (gotong royong) of the participants in taking care of the moslem cemetery (primarily in the funding for the cemetery necessity). The participants also expressed that most of them are assisted with several programs from the government such as BPJS and free school. The discus-sion revealed that the mother in a low income family has the tendency to manage the finance of the family and the family in a low income society tend to sell their goods like television or jewelry in financial emergency matter (children’s school needs, medical needs, etc).

Invited Lecture #5: Climate Change Policy Development in Indonesia

by Amin Budiarjo National Program Manager, Indonesia Climate Change Trust Fund (ICCTF)

The disaster policy experienced rapid development after the tsu-nami event in 2004. That trend affects the research and studies in Indonesia. Various attempts were made by the government to deal with the disaster issue, it starts with designing the rules and establishing particular institu-tion that focus on disaster pre-vention. Some of the disaster events are triggered by climate change. One of the big issues associated with climate change is the national food security that are threatened by climate variability. The Indonesian government has a strong commitment in Climate Change mitigation and adapta-tion. It is shown by one of Indo-nesia's commitments to reduce GHG emissions by 26 %.

In addition, Indonesia is actively involved in bilateral and multilat-eral agreements such as the Conference of the Parties (COP). One thing that needs to be examined from the success of an international agree-ment within the framework of cli-mate change adaptation, is the transfer of funds from developed to developing countries. At the national level, Indonesia is one of

the countries that has the most complete rules that are related to climate change. Unfortunately, the allocation of funds that are not available led to a bad realiza-tion of those rules. Another chal-lenge that is faced by Indonesia at the policy level, is the lack of coordination from the related institution. Thus, overlapping numbers of regulations and insti-tution led to the distraction of climate change adaptation and mitigation measure. There needs to be a single entity or a special ministry that oversees and regu-lates how the regulatory mecha-nisms related to climate change adaptation policy .

ICCTF has the mandate to regu-late how the economic funding and mechanism of climate change adaptation and mitigation measure in Indonesia. Several

ICCTF's activities as an effort to socialize the im-pact of climate change is by giving awards to the me-dia, holding cli-mate change semi-

nars and conduct research about intensification and diversification of climate change adaptation. The biggest challenge is how to

breakdown plan to reduce green-house gases by 26 % into regula-tion at the level of national , pro-vincial , district and sectoral. On the other hand, big number of agencies, boards or other institu-tion that give attention to climate change makes the decision mak-ing more difficult.

Other Invited Lecture news is now available on RDI’s website:

Invited Lecture #1: Lecture by Dr. Mangapul Nababan (Ministry of Works) "Local Water Govern-ance and Adaptation in Indone-sia"

Invited Lecture #2: Lecture by Budi Jaya Silalahi (BPN RI) "Using Geospatial Data for Coastal Disaster Risk Reduc-tion “

Invited Lecture #3: Lecture by Ayu Krishna. "Gender and Dis-aster Risk Reduction”

Invited Lecture #4: Lecture by Immanuel Teja Harja-ya. "Utilizing Biogas as Alter-native Energy for Rural Devel-opment".

Overlapping regulation

and institution led to the

distraction of climate

change adaptation and

mitigation measure

AMIN BUDIARJO

RDI WORKING PAPER

SERIES

Current working papers can be downloaded on RDI’s website: 1. Damayanti, P. and Sagala,

S. - Identifikasi Kesiapan Rumah Penduduk Dalam Menghadapi Ancaman Gempa Bumi [WP No 1. October 2013]

2. Sagala, S., Yamin, D., and Sitinjak, E. - Fostering Community Preparedness to Wildfire -- Expereiences from Indonesia [WP No. 2 November 2013]

3. Sagala, S. and Adhitama, P. - Skenario Mitigasi Bencana Kebakaran di Permukiman Padat Perkotaan Studi Kasus -- Kelurahan Sukahaji, Kota Bandung. [WP No. 3 De-cember 2013]

4. Sagala, S., Situngkir, F., and Wimbardana, R. - Ac-tors' interaction in post dis-aster housing reconstruc-tion in west java 2009 [WP No. 4 January 2014]

5. Sagala, S., Yamin, D., and Wimbardana, R. - Kesiapsi-agaan Masyarakat penghuni permukiman pa-dat terhadap bencana banjir sebagai adaptasi non struktural -- studi kasus kecematan baleendah, kabupaten Bandung [WP No. 5 February 2014]

Saturday, 19 April 2014

No Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Description

1 Data

National

BPS Indonesia in figures

National Maps

Province

Aceh, Bali, Banten, Bengkulu, DIY Yogya-karta, DKI Jakarta, Jambi, West Java, Cen-tral Java, East Java, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Lampung, Maluku, NTB, NTT, Papua, South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, North Sulawesi, West Sumatera, South Su-matera.

It consists data collected from kabupaten level to province level, such as Kabupat-en in figures, maps, spatial plan. etc

International Japan, Netherland, World Bank

It consists data collected outside from Indonesia, such as national institution, international donors, etc.

2 Research 2004, 2007, 2009 - 2014

Administration, Proposal, Output

This part consists data collected from previous and current research activity by RDI team members, such as administra-tion data, proposal, and output.

3 Literature

Journal This part consists journal collection from various national and international publish-ers (Bahasa and English)

Literature Confer-ence

Cities of Volcano, Climate Adaptation Fu-ture, East West Centre, FIG Conference, Flood Canada Conference, ICARUS Confer-ence, ICCG Conference, IEEE, IIASA, PPT Conference, Resilient Future, RICT Confer-ence, CBDRM Conference, UNITAR Confer-ence

This part consists conference papers and presentations collection from various na-tional and international conferences (Bahasa and English) .

National Organi-zation and Inter-national Organi-zation

Bappenas, BNPB, PU, KLH, Bakornas, IPCC, World Bank

This part consists national organization and international organization policy re-port (Bahasa and English)

EndNote Library RDI has its own EndNote database for citation and bibliography purposes

Indonesia basic map

RDI’s Database As an Indonesian think tank initiative that focuses by research, Resilience De-velopment Initiative (RDI) gathers data and establish a database that support all of RDI work. RDI’s works, such as working papers, conference proceedings and journal papers need good data and literature to produce a good research out-put. Our database consists three mayor section, the data, research database, and literature section. This database is available to all members, fellow and in-tern for research interests.

A new article by RDI research-ers. Situngkir, F. and Wimbardana, R. Interaksi Aktor dalam Rekonstruksi Ru-mah Pasca Bencana Gempa Jawa Bar-at 2009 (Actors Interaction in Housing Reconstruction After the 2009 West Ja-va Earthquake) (In Press - 2014). J. Mimbar Sosial, Universitas Islam Ban-dung. Vol 29 No 2

A new article by RDI fellows. Sagala, S. and Saraswati, S. Analisis Spasial Ketersediaan Ruang Terbuka Publik pada Permukiman Padat untuk Evakuasi pada Gempa Susulan (Spatial Analysis of Open Space for Earthquake Evacuation) Availability for Evacuation after Earthquake Aftershock in Dense Settlements), Jurnal Forum Geografi, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta. Vol 27 No 2.

A new article by RDI researchers. (Dian Lutfiana dan Ramanditya Wimbarda-na). Manajemen Rekonstruksi Pe-rumahan Pasca Bencana Gempa Bumi Jawa Barat: Studi Kasus Kabupaten Bandung, Jawa Barat (Housing Recon-struction Management of Post Earth-quake West Java: Case Study of Ban-dung District, West Java). Jurnal Pena-taan Ruang, Institute of Technology 10 November. Vol 8 No 2

An article published as a book chapter by RDI researchers: Dodon,Dian Lut-fiana dan Ramanditya Wimbardana. Wetland Landuse Change and Flood Risk Reduction Policy, Case Study of Palembang (Alih Fungsi Lahan Rawa dan Kebijakan Pengurangan Risiko Bencana Banjir: Studi Kasus Kota Pa-lembang). Edited by Herryal Anwar in Disaster and Environment Perspective in Indonesia: Case Studies and the Risk Reduction Volume 2 (Perspektif Terhadap Kebencanaan dan Ling-kungan di Indonesia. Studi Kasus dan Pengurangan Dampak Risikonya Vol-ume 2), LIPI.

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