Jakarta, Augsts 13, 2024– Climate change is forcing us to listen, embrace, and act together in the face of challenges. In this effort, the VICRA Program, supported by the Dutch Embassy in Indonesia, has shown that the collaboration of various parties is able to turn challenges into opportunities. After a meaningful journey, the VICRA consortium […]
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Climate change is an unavoidable condition nowadays. Society must begin to adapt and survive through the climate changes. In the agricultural sector, vulnerable groups—poor farmers, women, people with disabilities, and the elderly—are the groups that feel the greatest impact from climate change. The lack of socialization and the lack of access to information makes these
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Climate change extremes pose a threat to agricultural productivity in Indonesia. This may disrupt food security as well as have an impact on economic losses. To identify the risks of climate change to the agricultural sector in the regions, PATTIRO in collaboration with PI AREA organized a training on climate change impact research methodology in
Civil society organizations need to oversee local governments to allocate climate-resilient development budgets in accordance with the needs of the community, especially vulnerable groups. This emerged in the Training of Trainers (TOT) Budget Tracking activity organized by PATTIRO in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, 10-12 April 2022. TOT Budget Tracking is part of the Voice for
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Blitar Regency is one of the areas in East Java with a high disaster risk (BNPB, 2013). 15 of the 22 sub-districts are potential disaster areas. The area of critical lands in Blitar Regency prone to flooding, spread in various locations, amounted to 6,364 ha (Performance Report of Blitar Regency 2016). Data from BPBD of
Based on the Climate Change Risk and Adaptation Study (KRAPI) made by the Ministry of the Environment and several donor agencies in 2012, it shows an increase in the earth’s surface temperature of almost one degree Celsius in the Malang area. With this situation, Malang, which has a humid climate, is threatened with drought. Apart
Facing Climate Disaster, Malang Increases Capacity Read More »
By Rokhmad Munawir* Climate change is a phenomenon of nature that occurred significantly towards the weather patterns that occur in a specific time period. There is a general understanding that climate change is a drastic change in temperature, rainfall and the season and wind patterns. The change does not just occur naturally. There are several
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Last weekend, a number of villages in Central Java Province experienced floods and landslides due to heavy rain. Responding to this incident, Minister of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration Marwan Jafar issued a statement that village governments affected by the disaster could use 2016 village funds to repair and rebuild damaged village infrastructure.
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