September 21-23,1998
The concept of IDNDR was originally proposed by Dr.F.Press, President of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 1984,and states that we should make the last ten years of the 20th century"the Decade of lnternational Disasters Reduction"and should cooperate with one another to mitigate natural disasters in the world.
The Disaster Prevention Research lnstitute (DPRI) of Kyoto University agreed to join the international movements of lDNDR, and research projects with the support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, as a special international project in 1991.Thus,the project "Study of Prediction and Mitigation of Natural Disasters in Eastern Asia(Indonesia and China)" started as a three year program.The next five year joint research program started in 1994 with the overall title "Prediction and Mitigation of Natural Disasters in lndonesia and China".
The main subjects in lndonesia were(1)Igneous Process and Tectonics, and (2) Disasters Caused by Floods and Geomorphological Change and Their Mitigation. These projects cover aspects mostly in geoscience and civil engineering. For both lndonesia and Japan,these activities are of great strategic importance in the mitigation of natural hazards.Through this symposium we will endeavour to exchange our findings in the field of our studies for the aim of improving the strategies,methodologies, and techniques of our future activities in lndonesia.
The symposium covers various fields of studies related to natural disasters;
(1)Volcanic eruption prediction,(2)Volcanic hazard assessment,(3)Tectonics and crustal movement,(4)Earthquakes and seismotectonics,(5)Geomorphological changes,(6)Flood disaster and its control,(7)Sedimentation disaster and its control,(8)Coastalerosion and its control,(9)CoastalenvironmentPreservation
Extended abstracts of up to 8 pages should be submitted to the organizing committee by July 30th,1 998.
Complete papers will be published in the proceedings of the symposium at the end of March 1999.
STEERING COMMITTEE
Prof. Hirotake lmamoto(Director of Disaster Prevention Research lnstitute,Kyoto University,Japan),Dr.Ir.Rozik B.Soetjipto(Director General of Geology and Mineral Resources,Ministry of Mines and Energy,Indonesia),
Ir.Joelianto Hendro Moeljono(Director General of Agency for Research and Development,Ministry of Public Work,Indonesia),Prof.Kazuhiro lshihara,Prof.T orao Tanaka(Disaster Prevention Research lnstitute,Kyoto University),Prof.Shinji
Egashira(Ritsumeikan University),Prof.Joenil Kahar (Bandung lnstitute T echnology),Dr.Ir.WimpyS.Tjetjep(Volcanological Survey oflndonesia),Dr.Ir.S.
Suparka(Indonesian lnstitute of Sciences(LIPI)),Dr.Ir.Badruddin Machbub(Director of Research lnstitute for Water Resources Development,Bandung)
ORGANIZENG COMMITTEE
Dr.Ir.R.Sukhyar(Director of Volcanological Survey of Indonesia),Dr.Ir.Syamsudin(Research lnstitute for Water Resources Development),Masato lguchi,Kajuro Nakamura,Takao Yamashita,Kaoru T akara(DPRI,
Kyoto University),Igan S.Sutawidjaja,Muhamad Hendrasto, Gede Suantika and Ony Suganda Volcanological Survey of lndonesia) Dr.Sukhyar (Volcanological SurVey Of lndonesia)is secretariat.
Registration form and abstract should be sent to secretariat.Jalan Diponegoro No.57 Bandung 40122 1ndonesia,
Phone:62-22-721-4612,62-22-772-606,
Fax:62-22-702-761
or E-mail:sukhyar@merapi.vsi.dpe.go.id
The symposium will be held in HOLIDAY INN BANDUNG(Jalan lr.H.Juanda No.33 Bandung 40116 Indonesia,
Phone:62-22-421-1333,Fax:62-22-421-6666)
The symposium is organized by Disaster Prevention Research lnstitute,Kyoto University,Volcanological Survey of lndonesia,Research lnstitute for Water
Resources Development,Bandung
lnformation about the symposium can be found on the web sites,
http://www.vsi.dpe.go.id and http://www.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp
E-mails can be sent to R.Sukhyar (sukhyar@merapi.vsi.dpe.go.id)
and Masato lguchi (Iguchi@svo.dpri.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
A second circular will be distributed in the middle of August.
