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View all search resultsBNPB to install landslide early warning system
The National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has said it will install 20 landslide early warning system (EWS) units in regions across Java Island
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he National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) has said it will install 20 landslide early warning system (EWS) units in regions across Java Island.
'The President [Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo] has instructed the installation of a device that can detect the possible development of landslides during this year's rainy season, which will last until March on Java Island and until June in Ambon, Kalimantan and Sulawesi,' BNPB chairman Syamsul Ma'arif said as quoted by the Antara news agency on Sunday.
He said during the official opening of a EWS tower in Sumberejo village, Batur subdistrict, Banjarnegara regency, that the BNPB would install the 20 EWS devices in a number of landslide-prone locations
on Java, Indonesia's most populous island, in response to the President's instruction.
More than 70 people were killed when a major landslide buried a village in Banjarnegara in December 2014.
The BNPB said in a recent report that landslides were natural calamities that resulted in the highest death tolls in Indonesia throughout 2014.
The number of landslide-related incidents reached 376 in 2014, up from 291 in 2012, and claimed 248 lives in 2014.
A study commissioned in 2012 found that nearly half the Indonesian population, which had reached 250 million that year, lived in landslide-risk zones, with 40 million people in so-called 'high-risk' zones, which were mostly on Java, Sumatra and Sulawesi.
BNPB spokesperson Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said land-use changes, which have been occurring at an alarming rate, were the leading causes of disasters. (***)
