Indonesia's Disasters - Natural and Man-Made
Business Daily
BBC
4.4 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2018
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Tsunamis, earthquakes and a sinking capital - not all of Indonesia's problems are down to Mother Nature.
Jonathan Bithrey reports from this blighted archipelago on the Pacific ring of fire. 14 years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, why was the country so ill-prepared for the tidal wave that hit Palu this week? And what is being done to stop Jakarta slowly sinking into the sea under the weight of poor planning and overdevelopment?
(Picture: A woman looks for salvageable items among the debris in following the earthquake in Sulawesi; Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC with me Manuel Saragossa. Coming up, Indonesia, a country beleaguered by natural disasters. |
| 0:09.7 | Does it have the systems and infrastructure to cope? They complained why you always issued tsunami warning, but in fact there was no tsunami. |
| 0:17.5 | So probably they pushed them to just stop the warning as soon as possible. |
| 0:22.5 | And the man-made disaster threatening the capital to Carter. |
| 0:26.6 | The second floor is almost on the ground floor. |
| 0:29.1 | There's one door that can get you in still, but several others that you can stick your head out, |
| 0:34.3 | but you can't actually, unless you climbed out, you can't really use them. |
| 0:37.1 | Yeah, but they still have a business inside. |
| 0:39.5 | That's all in Business Daily from the BBC. |
| 0:44.3 | Thousands of people are still missing, and the death toll keeps rising in the city of Palu on the Indonesian island of Siloesi, |
| 0:51.2 | after it was struck by a devastating tsunami this week. |
| 0:54.1 | It's a humanitarian |
| 0:54.9 | disaster, one that once again underlines just how vulnerable Indonesia is to quakes and tsunamis. |
| 1:01.5 | After all, the country's 17,000 islands straddle what's known as the Pacific Ring of Fire, |
| 1:07.3 | a horseshoe-shaped area around the edges of the Pacific Ocean, which is prone to seismic activity. |
| 1:13.2 | In the aftermath of the Palo Sinamy, questions have been raised about the preparedness of |
| 1:17.3 | Indonesian infrastructure to such disasters. In a moment, it's not just natural disasters, |
| 1:22.7 | but man-made ones too, which are worrying many Indonesians. But first, our reporter John Bithri is in the capital, |
| 1:29.2 | Jakarta. And John, after the disaster in Ache in northern Sumatra many years ago, where over |
| 1:34.5 | 100,000 people died in a tsunami, didn't Indonesia implement lots of new infrastructure to create a new |
| 1:41.3 | warning system? Well, yes, that's right, Manuela. Indonesia, along with several other |
| 1:45.6 | countries in the region, suffered that awful tragedy of the Boxing Day tsunami. And yes, since then, |
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