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Indonesia under the same name and moment are counted as one event. As a result,
we found 38 DRR-themed events held in Indonesia that involve Indonesian youth
from 2010–2015.
In the third step, the C&Y Forum was selected because its registration has a
large number of applicants from Indonesian youth (446), where the authors can tap
relevant information, e.g., age, applicants’ province of residence and hometown,
gender, affiliation to youth organizations, potential skills, and contribution to the
C&Y Forum, DRR experiences (professional, academic, and other) and their plan to
use knowledge and skills gained from the C&Y Forum. The forum was an important
official side event of the WCDRR, as the only side event specifically for youth
and directly organized by UNMGCY and directly supported by the United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Even in the actual
forum Indonesian youth were the second-largest delegation with 190 youth (19%
from the total participants) just behind the host country––Japan (23%) (Cumsikey
et al. 2015).
In the fourth step, member database of U-INPSIRE is selected because: UINSPIRE is the first official platform for YYP on DRR in Indonesia, it has a wide
range of membership, it gains momentum and receives positive response by government and other DRR stakeholders after the Sixth Session of Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) on October 2019 in Geneva, where Indonesian
government acknowledged U-INSPIRE as an official platform for YYP on SETI for
DRR in Indonesia. As of October 27, 2019, the U-INSPIRE has 188 members and has
partnered with 11 government institutions, 7 international agencies, 18 NGOs/CBOs,
4 private sectors, and 3 media channels.
14.4 Indonesia: Home to Disasters, Home of the Youth
As one of the countries located along the ring of fire, where about 90% of the
world’s earthquakes occurred, Indonesia faces frequent earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions (Brown 2015). This is due to the geographical features of Indonesia which
is located on the convergent plate boundaries (Simkin et al. 2006). Despite the high
number of earthquake occurrences in Indonesia, frequencies of hydrometeorological disasters are even higher due to the rapid development and deforestation. The
number of climate-related hazards has been increasing in the past 26 years with
flood having the highest percentage of disaster type (31.2%), followed by tornado
(20%), landslide, peat fire, and drought (BNPB 2016). Regarding the occurrence and
impacts between geophysical disasters and climate-related disasters, Djalante (2016)
concluded that geological disasters have been extremely deadly, while climate-related
disasters occurred more often and caused more damage.
Those disasters continuously threatening 261,890,900 population of Indonesia,
of which 63.36 million population (25%) are youth (BPS 2018). Demographically,
youth in Indonesia is classified as the population between 16 and 30 years of age (BPS
2017). Based on the Indonesian Youth Statistics, the youth sex ratio is 102.36, which
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Indonesia under the same name and moment are counted as one event. As a result,
we found 38 DRR-themed events held in Indonesia that involve Indonesian youth
from 2010–2015.
In the third step, the C&Y Forum was selected because its registration has a
large number of applicants from Indonesian youth (446), where the authors can tap
relevant information, e.g., age, applicants’ province of residence and hometown,
gender, affiliation to youth organizations, potential skills, and contribution to the
C&Y Forum, DRR experiences (professional, academic, and other) and their plan to
use knowledge and skills gained from the C&Y Forum. The forum was an important
official side event of the WCDRR, as the only side event specifically for youth
and directly organized by UNMGCY and directly supported by the United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR). Even in the actual
forum Indonesian youth were the second-largest delegation with 190 youth (19%
from the total participants) just behind the host country––Japan (23%) (Cumsikey
et al. 2015).
In the fourth step, member database of U-INPSIRE is selected because: UINSPIRE is the first official platform for YYP on DRR in Indonesia, it has a wide
range of membership, it gains momentum and receives positive response by government and other DRR stakeholders after the Sixth Session of Global Platform for
Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) on October 2019 in Geneva, where Indonesian
government acknowledged U-INSPIRE as an official platform for YYP on SETI for
DRR in Indonesia. As of October 27, 2019, the U-INSPIRE has 188 members and has
partnered with 11 government institutions, 7 international agencies, 18 NGOs/CBOs,
4 private sectors, and 3 media channels.
14.4 Indonesia: Home to Disasters, Home of the Youth
As one of the countries located along the ring of fire, where about 90% of the
world’s earthquakes occurred, Indonesia faces frequent earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions (Brown 2015). This is due to the geographical features of Indonesia which
is located on the convergent plate boundaries (Simkin et al. 2006). Despite the high
number of earthquake occurrences in Indonesia, frequencies of hydrometeorological disasters are even higher due to the rapid development and deforestation. The
number of climate-related hazards has been increasing in the past 26 years with
flood having the highest percentage of disaster type (31.2%), followed by tornado
(20%), landslide, peat fire, and drought (BNPB 2016). Regarding the occurrence and
impacts between geophysical disasters and climate-related disasters, Djalante (2016)
concluded that geological disasters have been extremely deadly, while climate-related
disasters occurred more often and caused more damage.
Those disasters continuously threatening 261,890,900 population of Indonesia,
of which 63.36 million population (25%) are youth (BPS 2018). Demographically,
youth in Indonesia is classified as the population between 16 and 30 years of age (BPS
2017). Based on the Indonesian Youth Statistics, the youth sex ratio is 102.36, which