Information provided as part of our
Sahana deployment.
Aim
This project aims to deploy a disaster management system for the May 2006 Jogjakarta Earthquake[1].
The system will be operated by the Indonesian Whitewater
Association(IWA) and Indonesian Rescue Source (IRS). It is sponsored by
the Communications Technologies Board of the ACS[2] with technical support by UrRemote[3].
Background
Origin of the Project
In early 2006 there were signs that the Mount Merapi volcano near
Yogyakarta in Central Java, Indonesia, may erupt. The Australian
Computer Society asked UrRemote to prepare a report on the feasibility
of deploying a computer system to assist with relief coordination in the
event of an eruption.
The report "Deploying Sahana For The Merapi Eruption"[4],
indicated that such a system was feasible. The report was completed
just as the Yogyakarta earthquake occurred. The ACS therefore sponsored
further work for the system to be deployed for earthquake relief.
Indonesian Whitewater Association (IWA) and Indonesian Rescue Source (IRS) have experience in rescue work [5]
and were undertaking relief support for the eathquake. A plan was
therefore devised for IWA/IRS to deploy the system, with techncial
support from UrRemote, and assistance by ACS.
Initiator : Tom Worthington, Dr Ken Taylor & Dr Teddy Mantoro
Operational Team:
Gajah Rachmat Karsono (Coordinator of the Sahana deployment)
Teddy Mantoro (Liaison Officer in Canberra)
Pudji Astuti (Liaison Officer in Jogja)
Luki Lusiano (IT support in Bali)
Made Joni Arta (IT support in Bali)
Made Ady Dharmadi (IT support in Bali)
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ACS Communications Technologies Board
The ACS[6] is an association for Information & Communications Technology (ICT) professionals. The Communications Technologies Board[7]of
the ACS deals with all aspects of communications technology, including
Internet and mobile phones. The board provides representatives to
international telecommunications committees. As part of its commitment
to the wider community to ensure the beneficial use of ICT, the ACS is
sponsoring this work on the use of the Internet for disaster management.
Work is also being undertaken for a bird flu pandemic[8].
UrRemote
UrRemote[9]
aims to offer opportunites for students of Udayana University, Bali to
engage in internationally relevant research, engage in commercially
sponsored research and development and gain experience in working
remotely with overseas; principally Australian organisations.
UrRemote Service
As the IT support in Bali, the team of UrRemote try to give some service
for the implementation of Sahana in Yogyakarta. The description of the
service that we are willing to do are:
- Prepare the hosting process for the Sahana imlementation
- Be as the data center for the Sahana implemention
- Prepare the instalation process for the Sahana implementation
and working remotely from Bali by using UltraVNC Single-Click to install
the Sahana at the computer in Yogyakarta
- Help the team in Yogyakarta for Sahana troubleshooting
- Provide language translation from English to (Bahasa) Indonesia
- Assist with data input to the sahana database
- And other help that related with Sahana implementation
Indonesian Whitewater Association and Indonesian Rescue Source
IWA (Indonesian Whitewater Association) and IRS (Indonesian Rescue
Source) are rescue organisations in Indonesia and are nongoverment
bodies. IWA is formed in 1998 and IRS is founded in 2003.
IWA have competencies for emergency rescue such as SAR operation
and handling flood disaster in Indonesia. Since 2000, all instructors in
IWA have certificate from Rescue 3 Australia and from Emergency Rescue
of Indonesia. The director of IWA is Gajah Rachmat.
IRS is an organisation with primary duty of building networks
with all rescue organisations in Indonesia. The director of IRS is Agus
Mulyono, and the project manager of IRS for Disaster Management is
Gajah Rachmat.
IWA and IRS is aiming to build networks with all organisation in
the world to deal with the disaster management in Indonesia, e.g.
earthquake, flooding, tsunami.
Indonesian Whitewater Association and Indonesian Rescue Source
are asssisting with a team in Yogyakarta. Until day 4 of the Jogjakarta
earthquake, crews of IWA and IRS have already made accesibility to open
remote area in north Jogjakarta and we have already published all the
information about the rescue area. At present, we are still making plans
for recovery and recontruction phase after the emergency phase.
The Problem is that after the disaster we do not have a disaster
management system to be applied. That is why IWA and IRS need your
support and assistance to apply Sahana disaster management system in
this Jogjakarta’s disaster.
YOGYAKARTA
Yogyakarta (also Jogjakarta in pre-1972 spelling or Jogja) is a city
and province on the island of Java, Indonesia. It is the only province
in Indonesia that is still formally governed by a precolonial Sultanate,
the Sultanate of Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat. The city is known as a
center of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet,
drama, music, poetry and puppet shows. It is also famous as a center
for Indonesian higher education. The official name of the Yogyakarta
province is Special Region of Yogyakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Istimewa
Yogyakarta, or DIY). The city of Yogyakarta is the capital of the
province. Taken from en.wikipedia.org Yogyakarta Wikipedia
SAHANA
Sahana means "Relief" in Sinhalese. http://www.sahana.lk/
As the name itself implies, Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System. It mainly facilitates management of
Helping to reduce trauma by effectively finding missing persons
Coordinating and balancing the distribution of relief organizations
in the affected areas and connecting relief groups allowing them to
operate as one
Registering and Tracking all incoming requests for support and relief
upto fullfilment and helping donors connect to relief requirements
Tracking the location and numbers of victims in the various camps and temporary shelters setup all around the affected area