Abstract
<span>Indonesia is a country located on top of some tectonic plates that bring potential natural disasters. Disaster management system is considered essential in controlling the situation in the site both before and after the disaster takes place. In disaster situation, the government and society are involved in a volunteer team in order to help minimize victims and support survivors. However, the volunteering activities are often hindered since there are problems in the disaster site. One of the problems is late responses due to poor coordination among volunteers that drives the delay in disaster relief. Therefore, it is necessary to have an application that maps the positions of volunteers in a disaster site, so that the disaster management coordinator can disseminate volunteers to disaster areas based on needs. The purpose of the study is to propose an application called ‘MyMapVolunteers’ that effectively and efficiently detects the position of the volunteers in order to improve disaster management service. In this case, real time and location based service technology will able to detect the position of each volunteer. ‘MyMapVolunteers’ is composed of two platforms, which are mobile and web applications. Mobile platform is an application that uses GPS function provided by the smartphone to find the volunteers’ location coordinates and then send the data of the location automatically and manually. The web platform is used to receive volunteers’ location data and to present them in google map, therefore disaster management coordinator can monitor the positions of and search for volunteers faster.</span>
Highlights
Indonesia has a large range of natural resources
It faces a lot of potential natural disasters [1] since geographically it is an archipelago which is located above the intersections of the Tectonic Plates of Eurasia, Indo-Australia, Philippines, and Pacific
In the southern and eastern of Indonesia there is a volcanic arc ranging from Sumatera, Java, Nusa Tenggara, and Celebes which edge is composed of old volcanoes and valleys, dominated by swamps
Summary
Indonesia has a large range of natural resources. it faces a lot of potential natural disasters [1] since geographically it is an archipelago which is located above the intersections of the Tectonic Plates of Eurasia, Indo-Australia, Philippines, and Pacific. The presence of volunteers is an effective solution to the lack of human resources in disaster mitigation especially in the government organization like BPBD (National Bureau of Disaster Mitigation). They are a group of people with skills and interests to work as volunteers to mitigate the disaster effects. While the web platform is essential to receive location data and present the results to the operator in a google map, so that the disaster management coordinators can monitor, manage the deployment of the volunteers and search for the volunteers the fastest as possible
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