Category: Brantas

Strengthening Climate & Weather Information Services to improve resilience

One of the important tasks of the Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience Program – or abbreviated as APIK – is to help BMKG in strengthening Weather and Climate Information Services, so that it can be fully utilized by the Indonesian people in general, as well as communities in East Java, Southeast Sulawesi and Maluku in particular. We believe that the improvement of weather and climate information services, is one of the most important components in increasing the resilience of communities in facing the threat of climate change. The resilience needs to be built at the level of institutional resilience, socio-economic resilience and landscape-based resilience, and to be built at the National Government level, Local Government, private sector, and Community level resilience.

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Vulnerability Assessment Upstream Brantas

Almost all of Malang City, Batu City, Malang District, and Blitar District form part of the Brantas Watershed. Those four areas are all considered one landscape, i.e. upstream Brantas, and as a result several strategic factors are interrelated. Economically, this landscape contributes 13.83% of East Java GRDP. Due to many factors, these four cities and districts are significantly impacted by climate change and disaster events with the potential for this to get worse in the future. Therefore, it was important to carry out the vulnerability and risk assessment in one integrated approach. Similarly, many of the solutions and strategies to address the risks cross administrative boundaries.

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Vulnerability Assessment Downstream Brantas

The years 2015 and 2016 are listed by the World Meteorological Organization as the  hottest years in the last hundred years. Extreme weather events, floods and landslides are becoming more frequent. The risks of climate change and disasters are faced by all levels of society in Brantas water shed; but the communities that will most likely feel the impact are: farmers, fishermen, and the urban poor. The impacts of climate change can reduce development outcomes, threaten food security, and increase poverty. Most of the disasters that occur in Brantas water shed are related to climate and weather (hydrometeorological disaster).

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