“Problem Tree of Disasters in Indonesia” is a kind of visualization presenting:
- Links of events related to natural disasters and each aspect related within. A fact that the archipelagic geography of Indonesia is so dense with natural disasters while a lot of problematic things also occurs in the social system. The tree is made upon the causality as recorded in the report of disaster management throughout the year of 2008 in Indonesia by the Kementerian Riset & Teknologi Republik Indonesia (2009).

The Problem Tree of Disasters in Indonesia has made it possible to see the degree of each natural disasters in Indonesia as reported along the year 0f 2008-2009. While focusing on main natural disasters based on our data, we could calculate that landslides are at the highest importance disastrous events relative to flood, earthquake, and so on. The table is shown below.

The similar analysis can be applied to see the importance of an impact related to natural disasters in Indonesia. As it is shown in table below, we could see that important direct impacts on any disasters in Indonesia is the problem of malnutrition, famine, intoxication, water supply, and so on. Thus, mitigation should consider these five important aspects as core of helpful hands since it seems to be appear to be impact on any disasters happened as recorded in our dataset.

More detail explanations on the model used in this visualization can be accessed online here:

Situngkir, H. (2010). "Rooting out Problems Related to Disasters & Their Mitigation and Recovery in Indonesia". BFI Working Paper Series WP-1-2010. Bandung Fe Institute. URL: http://www.bandungfe.net/?go=xpi&&crp=4befb1e3|