AIWEST-DR 2018 "Advancing Science and Technology Innovation for
Sustainable Disaster Resilience and Risk Reduction" (2018/10/10-11)
Subject: International conference; International collaboration; Tsunami recovery
Place: Banda Aceh City, Aceh Province, Indonesia

On October10th and 11th, 11th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami
Disaster Recovery (the 11th AIWEST-DR 2018) was held in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, organizedby the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) of Syiah Kuala University
and co-organized by IRIDeS. At the first AIWEST since the signing of the MOU between thetwo research institutes in 2016, the following IRIDeS faculty participated in this years’ AIWEST.
Professor Shunichi Koshimura (Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division), ProfessorTakeshi Sato, Associate Professor Akihiro Shibayama, Assistant Professor Daisuke Sasaki,Assistant Professor Sébastien Boret (Disaster Information Management and PublicCollaboration Division), Assistant Professor Yasuhito Jibiki (G-Safety), and Assistant Professor
Elizabeth Maly (Human and Social Response Research Division) attended this workshop.
Other IRIDeS faculty who did not attend but contributed by authoring or co-authoring papers
include: Director and Professor Fumihiko Imamura and Associate Professor Anawat Suppasri(Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division), Professor Yuichi Ono and Associate
Professor Shosuke Sato (Disaster Information Management and Public Collaboration Division),
Professor Tsukasa Iwata (Regional and Urban Reconstruction Research Division).
Prof. Shunichi Koshimura delivered a keynote speech on the topic of “Enhancement of Earth
Observation and Modeling for Enhancing Tsunami Disaster Resilience” on the first day, Oct.
10th. Papers presented in technical sessions on Oct. 11th authored/co-authored by IRIDeS
faculty included:
Transforming the Archives of The Great East Japan Earthquake into Global Natural
Disaster Archives: Akihiro Shibayama and Sébastien Boret
Aceh’s Memorial Sites for The Dead of the 2004 Tsunami: Sébastien Boret and Akihiro
Shibayama
Archiving Disaster Remains: The Case Of “Sasanao Factory” In Yuriage Village, Natori
City, Miyagi Prefecture: Shosuke Sato, Anawat Suppasri, Sébastien Boret, Masaharu
Nakagawa and Fumihiko Imamura
Seven Years’ Development of Disaster Education Program at Public Schools inIshinomaki-City, Miyagi, Japan: Aiko Sakurai, Takeshi Sato, and Yoshiyuki Murayama
Seismic Damage of Structural and Nonstructural Components of Hospital: A Lesson
Learnt from Thailand Perspective: Teraphan Ornthammarath and Anawat Suppasri
The Evolution of Localized Disaster Recovery Housing in Japan: Elizabeth Maly andTsukasa Iwata
Main Features of the Existing Literature Concerning Disaster Statistics: Daisuke Sasaki,
Kana Moriyama and Yuichi Ono
A Study of Early Warning System for Complex Disasters by the Community Survey inCilegon, Indonesia: Yasuhito Jibiki, Dicky Pelupessy, Fatma Lestari and Fumihiko Imamura
Invited for a special session on ‘Increasing Coastal Cities Resilience Towards Impacts ofNatural Hazards,” Elizabeth Maly gave a presentation on “Challenges of post-disasterrelocation in coastal communities: the case of Tacloban after Typhoon Yolanda.
In the AIWEST-DR 2018 Best Paper Awards, the best paper in the category of Applied
Technology was awarded to: Archiving Disaster Remains: The Case Of “Sasanao Factory” inYuriage Village, Natori City, Miyagi Prefecture: Shosuke Sato, Anawat Suppasri, Sébastien
Boret, Masaharu Nakagawa and Fumihiko Imamura.
Finally, during the closing, Sébastien Boret announced that next year the 12th AIWEST will beheld in Sendai in November 2019. It will be organized by IRIDeS with the assistance of TDMRCand immediately precede the World Bosai Forum (dates to be confirmed).
Text by Elizabeth Maly (Human and Social Response Research Division) andSébastien Boret (Disaster Information Management and Public Collaboration Division)(continues to the next page)Tohoku alumni and IRIDeS participants at AIWEST 2018

Prof. Koshimura’s Keynote

Best Paper Awards

Presentations by
Assoc. Prof. Shibayama

Presentations by
Asst Prof. Boret

Presentation by
Asst. Prof. Jibiki

Presentation by
Asst. Prof. Maly