Abstract
Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone countries on the planet, given its high exposure to natural hazards coupled with its high socio-economic vulnerability. The aim of this chapter is to review disaster events and impacts, and assess effectiveness of risk governance in responding to disasters and reducing risk. It discusses institutional and social-economic changes that have happened in response to particular disasters, and how different social political changes influence disaster risk governance. There are extensive studies that have examined the progress in building resilience in Indonesia, but studies that link disaster events and key historical institutional responses over the period between 1900 and 2015 have not yet been done systematically. Learning from these can help to achieve more effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) governance in the future. This study is done through review of the Emergency Events Database of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (EM-DAT-CRED) combined with desktop review of disasters, DRR, and socio-economic-political changes in Indonesia.
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