June 20 - 22, 2007

JSPS-LIPI Workshop: Japan-Indonesia Research Collaboration on Natural Disasters

A JSPS-LIPI workshop titled "Japan-Indonesia Research Collaboration on Natural Disasters" was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 20 June. It was organized by JSPS and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and supported by Japan's Ministry of Education and Science (MEXT) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Its aim was to develop and expand the network among Japanese and Indonesian researchers and practitioners involved in disaster prevention, while increasing awareness in both countries of the merits of collaboration in this critical research field.

Representing the Indonesian side of the JSPS-LIPI joint research program on earthquakes and tsunami, Dr. Hery Harjono began the opening ceremony by offering welcoming remarks. He was followed by comments from Dr. Kusmayanto Kadiman, Minister of Research and Technology (read by Dr Idwan Suhardi, Deputy to the Ministry for Utilization and Dissemination of S&T), Mr. Minoru Hakamagi, Senior Deputy Director-General of MEXT, Mr. Isao Kiso, Executive Director of JSPS, and Dr. Umar Anggara Jeni, Chairman of LIPI.

The keynote address on an Indonesian tsunami warning system was delivered by Mr. Ir. Sri. Woro B. Harijono, chairman of Badan Meteorologi and Geofisika (BMG). Three sessions were held, in which presentations were made on 15 projects. In them, the participants engaged in vigorous exchanges of views, which accrued to building a network among them and to winning anticipated international support for their collaborative research on natural disasters.

Please refer to the agenda of the workshop. (PDF120KB)

Over the following two days, a research symposium, jointly organized by the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU) and the Association of Eastern Asia Research Universities (ARARU), was held on the theme "Earthquake Hazards around the Pacific Rim-Diversity of Earthquakes, Tsunami and Volcanic Phenomena and Their Hazards." In it, leading researchers affiliated to the two associations gathered together to brainstorm ways of mitigating disasters and building a sustainable society.

Please see this webpage for more details.

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