Lesson Learned Indonesian Disaster Data and Information Database (DIBI)

The lessons learned through the evolution of DesInventar into the now nationally owned - Indonesian Disaster Data and Information Database (DIBI) – can provide the broader development community, as well as other national governments, with insights into the utility of the information management tool and the politics of establishing such a comprehensive and powerful information tracking tool. Perhaps most importantly for Indonesia, the sub-national governments – the provinces, the districts and sub-districts – will understand the purpose of establishing sub-national "DIBI-type" information platforms that are linked into the national DIBI and can clearly illustrate the costs of disasters in terms of losses in development progress. These administrations can be supported by DIBI in leading the process of embedding disaster risk reduction, as relevant to their jurisdictions context, in their own development planning. With this end in mind, DIBI was finally launched as a nationally-owned database in 29 July 2008, and is housed within the newly established National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).

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