AIWEST-DR2019 Conference Report (2019/11/7-8)
Theme: 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, General disaster prevention
Venue: International Research Institute for Disaster Science, Tohoku

IRIDeS and TDMRC held the 12th Aceh International Workshop and Expo on Sustainable
Tsunami Disaster Recovery (AIWEST-DR2019) on November 7-8, 2019. AIWEST-DR has beencreated by the Tsunami and Disaster Mitigation Research Center (TDMRC) at Syiah Kuala
University, Banda Aceh. The aim was to share the lessons from the historic human andinfrastructural suffering and reconstruction that followed the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. The 12thedition took place for the first time outside Banda Aceh notably celebrating Syiah Kuala University’s
collaboration with Tohoku University and other Japanese partners.
The conference gathered around 100 participants, many of which came from Indonesia. The firstday consisted keynote lectures by the Rector of Syiah Kuala University and Dr. Yoshimi Nishi ofKyoto University, They respectively discussed the issues of the role of university and inter-culturalresearch within disaster science. Prof. Toshiya Ueki (Director / Vice President of the University) andDirector Imamura led the signing ceremony for the renewal of Memorandum of Understandingbetween IRIDeS and the Mathematics and Informatics, and the new MoU between the Engineering
Schools of Syiah Kuala and Tohoku University. The participants were also invited to take part in a
Bosai stamp rally led by Ms Yasuda.
In the afternoon (11/7), the participants visited the 3.11 disaster areas of Arahama Elementary
School in Sendai City and Yuriage, Natori City, both of which were heavily affected by the Great
East Japan Earthquake. The following day of AIWEST consisted of 13 parallel session and 66
presentations by 66 presentation by disaster scientists from Taiwan, India, Europe, America,Malaysia, Indonesia and Japan.
The organizing committee (Liz, Erick, Anawat and Seb) would like to thank all their support staff
at IRIDeS, their colleagues from TDMRC and all the participants for making AIWEST such a
wonderful human and academic experience. They wish the very same success for the AIWEST
2020 to take place at the University of Indonesia in collaboration with the APRU program.
AIWEST-DR2019 Homepage for program and more info
http://irides.tohoku.ac.jp/eng/event//aiwest-dr2019.html

Opening Prof. Imamura

Rector of Syiah Kuala

Vice President, Prof. Ueki

Dr. Nishi, Kyoto University

Group Photo

Disaster Tour

Report byElizabeth Maly, Sébastien Boret (Disaster Information Management and Public Collaboration Division)
and Erick Mas, Anawat Suppasri (Hazard and Risk Evaluation Research Division)(continues to the next page)Presentations from IRIDeS
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1

2

3Name
Constance
Chua, Anawat
Suppasri
Erick Mas

5Kwanchai
Pakoksung,AnawatSuppasri
Luis Angel Moya,
Erick Mas
Kanako Iuchi

6

Yasuhito Jibiki※

7Julia Gerster

8Daisuke Sasaki

910Miwako
Kitamura,
Yasuaki Onoda
Mari Yasuda

11

Elizabeth Maly

12Flavia Fulco

13Sebastien P.
Boret4(Names: First authors and IRIDeS members only)
Title
Development of tsunami damage fragility functions for port
infrastructure based on observations from the 2011
Tohoku tsunami
Analysis of tsunami evacuation simulation with minimum
congestion and higher survivability using reinforcement
learning algorithm
Tsunami simulation in the 28 September 2018 Palu bay,Indonesia, using
Submarine landslide source and twolayer depth-integrated
modeling
Collapsed buildings due to the 2018 Sulawesi earthquaketsunami from remote sensing data
Observation on grassroots efforts in the fisheries industry
after the great east japan earthquake
Exploratory Study For Strengthening Education Sectors ForRespondingToComplexities
DueToNatech(NaturalhazardTriggered
TechnologicalDisasters)
Disasters
The power of disaster theater in social recovery: school
theater projects, Japanese paper theater and theKataritsugi event in northeast japan after 3.11
Intermediate function for reconstruction from disasters
provided by local academic institutions: a case study inBanda Aceh
Community-based disaster management example study ofOtsuchi in Iwate prefecture
Verification Of Whether The Children Can Improve The
Preparedness For tsunami disaster By The Stamp Rally
Game
Voices from communities relocated to Tacloban north after
typhoon Yolanda
Between local knowledge and disaster education: How
Kataribe-Storytelling enhances disaster risk awareness andresilience
Social lives of tsunami walls in japan: concrete culture,social innovation and coastal communities