Bandung Disaster Study Group

As part of youth empowerment in disaster risk reduction, BDSG conducted a Basic Training in September 27, 2014 in its secretariat. This was aimed for reaching another milestone towards the sustainability of BDSG. Participants of the training consist of those who have joined BDSG activities a few times and those who were completely new to BDSG.  It was the first training conducted formally by BDSG. Usually BDSG volunteers were informally trained along with their participation in activities. Those who were more active would automatically became more skilled in designing concept of activities, in communicating, or in delivering materials in the school sessions. But it was about time to involve more skilled and committed volunteers to implement more missions of BDSG, quantity-wise and quality-wise. Therefore BDSG started to formalize its recruitment process, capacity building activities, and volunteer structure.  This basic training would be the first step of any ...

The sharing session was conducted on the 9 th of November in the Auditorium of the Geology Museum in Bandung and was open to the public in general. Before the start of the sharing session, a video about the Kars Rajamandala area by the Board of Geology was shown to the audience. Fossils and pre-historical records have been found in Gua Pawon, one of the caves in the area. However, the area is being threatened by mining activities around it. The video shows just how important the area is and that we should mitigate its threats to preserve it. The sharing session started with an introduction of BDSG and what we do, which is to Learn, Share, and Volunteer. We explained our activities such as sharing sessions, school sessions, DRR-Young Exchange Program, and Campaigns, as well as our upcoming activities. After that the audience was asked to participate in an ice breaking game which is called the Bosai Duck, which is also a game that is used as a teaching method about disa...

Siapa yang tidak pernah mendengar kata tsunami? Setelah Tsunami Aceh 2004 yang memakan korban ratusan ribu jiwa, tsunami menjadi familiar di masyarakat kita. Dalam science , tsunami merupakan gelombang atau serangkaian gelombang yang dibangkitkan secara tiba-tiba oleh perubah vertikal suatu kolom air (Bryant, 2008). Ada beberapa hal yang menyebabkan hal tersebut, seperti aktivitas seismik, vulkanik, longsor di atas atau di bawah air, akibat asteroid yang jatuh di laut, atau pun fenomena meteorologi. Sejak Tsunami Aceh, masyarakat kita kembali menyadari bahwa Indonesia terletak di wilayah rawan bencana. Berbagai hal dilakukan sebagai wujud pengurangan dampak dari bencana, seperti memunculkan kembali kearifan masyarakat, pelatihan atau simulasi bencana, edukasi mengenai kebencanaan ke berbagai lapisan masyarakat, jalur evakuasi, hingga yang paling canggih, yaitu Tsunami Early Warning System (TEWS). Seperti namanya, TEWS merupakan sistem peringatan dini terhadap bahaya tsunami...

First step we came in, we thought  of how has been this learning center with all its facilities built by the government to enrich the knowledge of the citizen in facing disaster, hence every visitor who has came here know how to survive when disaster happen. We believe someday Indonesia also has this center in every province, every city, and every district. Ganbattekudasai! Every session in this learning center is NEW for us.We watched movie about Tohoku earthquake and its secondary disasters which is fire, how is the disaster looked from the sky, how firemen did the job, the rescue, and also the victims to survive. We also practiced how to fight a fire with fire extinguisher together with WASEND member, very interesting. Then we tried simulation to face a rainstrom with 30cm/sec speed, really scary! We also tried to open door which is trapped by the flood while we were inside a car and inside a building, when there is 10 c...

We (BDSG members) arrived a little bit late at JMA office, jet lag is the only reason to be achieved.. :P  Okay ignore it and lets start, JMA is one of learning centers in Tokyo which has interactive media to help visitors to understand natural process on earth with sciences and technologies. Some of them are: 1. height measurement by counting length between heat limit of our body to the device. 2. explanation of ocean technology, earth science, shapes of water drop, and so on. 3. very small scale earthquake simulation table. It explains us process from the time when S signal came then followed by P signal. Between that time, people will get warning text automatically. We also feel the shake in small scale while we was seeing the wave reached our place and then a question came: "What would you do in that situation and that place?"  4. tsunami simulation pound. It simulated how tsunami wave devastated coastal area. Tsunami is one wave caused by earth shak...

Sabtu, 3 Maret 2012, 01:08 P.M. Opening by Kak Iche (BDSG) - Ruang 6302 (Plano) Peserta: HMP (4 orang), BDSG (8 orang), ITB Siaga Bencana (2 orang), Pak Wilmar (Dosen Planologi) Warming Up: Sekilas tentang INEE (Inter-Agecy Network for Education in Emergencies) Minimum Standards for Education Untuk mempermudah pengertian kami tentang substansi buku ini, kami memakai ilustrasi kasus dengan: Membentuk 2 kelompok Membahas satu kasus per kelompok. Ketentuan: Bayangkan situasi kasus dan bisa kembangkan sendiri cerita / asumsinya à Identifikasi unsur atau syarat yang diperlukan untuk mencapai pendidikan yang berkualitas à Tidak usah detail Hasil Ilustrasi Kasus: Kelompok 1 (Kasus: BDSG berencana untuk mengadakan kelas pendidikan kesiapsiagaan bencana untuk TK di Bandung). Unsur atau syarat yang diperlukan untuk mencapai pendidikan yang berkualitas: Peningkatan kapasitas internal (ToT) Peningkatan dengan pelatihan: kebencanaan, komunikasi dan psikologi anak (KS dengan Psikologi ...