The 10th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami
Disaster Recovery (AIWEST-DR 2016) (2016/11/22-24)
Topics: Entering the second decade of The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Are we better prepared?
Venue: Hermes Palace Hotel（Banda Aceh, Indonesia）

The 10th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Recovery(AIWEST-DR 2016) was held in Banda Aceh, Indonesia on November 22-24 (Tue-Thu).
AIWEST-DR was first launched in 2005 as part of Syiah Kuala University contribution to ensure
the messages from the 2004 tsunami pass across the regions and become lessons learned forother tsunami prone countries. Syiah Kuala University, along with Tsunami Disaster Mitigation
Research Center (TDMRC) conducted AIWEST-DR this year in collaborating with International
Research Institute of Disaster Science (IRIDeS) of Tohoku University. The meeting gatheredresearchers, responders, as well as nation stakeholders and policy makers to create a moredisaster-resilient world.
Dyshelly Nurkartika, a master student of International Post-Graduate Program in Human Security(IPHS) presented “Integrated Health Education in Disaster Risk Reduction: Lesson Learned fromDiseases Outbreak Following Natural Disasters in Indonesia” in oral presentation session. She isunder supervision of Prof. Shinichi Egawa of Disaster Medical Science Division, IRIDeS. This is asystematic review based on documentary search and data accessed from Badan Nasional
Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB, disaster management board in Indonesia) and World HealthOrganization (WHO) report about how infectious diseases become one of health risks that makes
disaster survivors more vulnerable. After several destructive natural disasters in Indonesia, somepost-disaster infectious diseases happened such as acute respiratory infection (ARI), diarrhea,
hepatitis A, and even Tetanus. One of the causes is that people didn’t much aware to the diseases.
Dyshelly pointed out on health promotion and education integrated with disaster risk reduction(DRR) plan which can be one of solutions to minimize the risk of post-disaster infectious disease
among survivors by raising people awareness to the health risk after disaster. This paper was
selected as one of the invited papers in the special volume of International Journal of Disaster Risk
Reduction (IJDRR).
At the event, some researchers also focus on disaster education and preparedness such as
school-based and community-based DRR plan which also gives new insight and contribute indeepen the idea to enrich the paper presented. In this event there was also the MoU signing
between IRIDeS and TDMRC, Syiah Kuala University and Aceh Tsunami Museum regarding
research collaboration on disaster.
The last day of conference, participants were brought to some remains from The 2004 Indian
Ocean Tsunami in Banda Aceh such as The monument “fishing boat on the house”, Diesel Power
Generator Vessel which was lifted off the shore by tsunami and landed in a crowded housing
settlement, Baiturrahman Grand Mosque, tsunami escape building and TDMRC office, and The
Aceh Tsunami Museum, a museum in memorial of the tsunami which also becomes as a center toeducate young people about safety and an evacuation center in case of another tsunami. Next
conference is planned to be held in Sendai, Japan and hosted by IRIDeS.
Reported by Dyshelly Nurkartika, Shinichi Egawa (Disaster Medical Science Division)(continues to the next page)

Dyshelly presented the paper

One of booths in the expo about Provincial
Health Crisis Center

MoU signing between IRIDeS and TDMRCProf. Fumihiko Imamura delivers his talk about

Syiah Kuala University

tsunami resilient city planning and Japan triple
disasterAceh Tsunami Museum