ICAIOS | International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies

Where should we rebuild after a disaster?

Authors:
Jamie McCaughey, Ibnu Mundzir,
Saiful Mahdi, and Patrick Daly

In 2004, a devastating tsunami struck coastlines around the Indian Ocean. Examining the long-term recovery of the city of Banda Aceh, Indonesia, we found that reconstruction aid provided mostly near the coast, combined with many people's preferences to move to safer areas instead, has had the unintended consequence that the poor have become disproportionately exposed to coastal hazards.

We published these findings in Nature Sustainability (see also a commentary and blog post). For this and other studies, researchers from the Earth Observatory of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University teamed up with our colleagues at the International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies and Syiah Kuala University in Banda Aceh, Indonesia.

Banda Aceh and surroundings after reconstruction. The tsunami reached ~3 km inland across the low-lying terrain. Following this, the international reconstruction effort rebuilt mostly in-place in areas near the coast

As we detail in our paper and blog post, this study looks at the question of where to rebuild after a disaster. This decision often involves a difficult tradeoff: rebuilding in-place puts people back in disaster-prone areas, yet mass relocation projects often have negative impacts on people's livelihoods, land rights, and connections to their community. The international humanitarian sector often favors rebuilding in-place, but is this always what people want after a devastating disaster?

PDS #58 : Religion and 'Double-Edged' Social Capital in Disaster Recovery in Indonesia

Public Discussion Series

Religion and 'Double-Edged' Social
Capital in Disaster Recovery
in Indonesia

Speaker:

Muhammad Riza Nurdin

HASS, UNSW Canberra

About The Speaker:
Muhammad Riza Nurdin is a PhD Candidate at School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the University of New South Wales, Australia. His research interests are Sociology and Anthropology of religion with particular focus on the intersection between Islam, development and humanitarianism. Riza obtained his BA in Islamic Studies and Arabic from Al-Azhar University, Egypt, and Master in Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Passau, Germany. Riza is former Program Manager at ICAIOS.

About PDS:
This study examines the roles of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) and their social capital formation in post-disaster Indonesia. To what extent FBOs along with other disaster management agencies, can contribute to providing economic recovery aid in post-disaster Indonesia? In what way are FBOs able to create positive social capital or produce adverse results from social capital formation in the affected society?

Study Visit by Participants of New Colombo Plan, University of Western Sydney

On 29-11-2017 to 02-12-2017, ten undergraduate students from Western Sydney University majoring in Humanitarian and Development Studies accompanied by their two lecturers, Dr Zulfan Tadjoeddin and Dr Nichole Georgeou visited Banda Aceh to learn about the emergency, rehabilitation and Aceh’s redevelopment in the context of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the conflict. Under the program named The New Colombo Plan they also visited Jakarta and Yogyakarta as part of the learning about humanitarian and development practices in Indonesia. This study tour was supported by Australian government.

The participants interacted with humanitarian and development practitioners and experts from local and international government and non-government organisations, discussed firsthand the national and international responses to natural disasters, observed and analyzed the legacies of humanitarian and development intervention, and participated in critical evaluations of lessons learned.

Rektor UIN Ar-Raniry Terima Tim ICAIOS dan ARICIS

[ICAIOS]- Rektor UIN Ar-Raniry, Prof. Farid Wajdi Ibrahim, menerima tim pengurus ICAIOS-ARICIS di ruang kerjanya, Selasa (16/01/2018). Audiensi ini dihadiri oleh beberapa akademisi UIN Ar-Raniry, Direktur ICAIOS dan staf, serta timpanitia konferensi Ar-Raniry Internasional Conference on Islamic Studies (ARICIS). Turut hadir pula Wakil Rektor bidang Akademik UIN Ar-Raniry, Dr. Muhibbuthabry.

Dalam audiensi ini, Direktur ICAIOS, Dr.T. Zulfikar memaparkan bahwa maksud tim ICAIOS dan ARICIS bertemu dengan Rektor UIN Ar-Raniry selain untukbersilaturrahmi sekaligus juga membicarakan konferensi ICAIOS-VII yang akan digelar pada tahun 2018 bersamaan dengan konferensi ARICIS-II di UIN Ar-Raniry. Dr. Zulfikar juga mengatakan, ada dua opsi pemilihan waktu yang tepat untuk penyelenggaraan konferensi tersebut, yakni di bulan Agustus atau di bulan Oktober 2018. Karena pada bulan-bulan tersebut bertepatan dengan ulang tahun UIN Ar-Raniry dan perayaan Pekan Kebudayaan Aceh (PKA) di Banda Aceh.

Pada kesempatan ini Prof.Warid Wajdi menyambut baik rencana pelaksanaankonferensi dua tahunan ICAIOS VII dengan ARICIS-II yang diselenggarakan di UIN Ar-Raniry. Beliau menambahkan, tema-tema yang dibahas sebaiknya mengangkat isu-isu yang berkembang pada saat ini, seperti isu radikalisme dan intoleransi dalam agama.