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April 30th, 2009, 01:56 PM
RI has no vulnerability index of small islands on climate change
Adianto P. Simamora , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 04/30/2009 4:26 PM | National
The government admitted that the country has yet to make a map determining vulnerability index of small islands against sea level rise due to the human-induced climate change.
The ministry of marine and fishery affairs said that the office has so far gave names of 13,366 islands out of about 17,500 across the country.
“We just start mapping vulnerability index of North Jakarta offshore of Thousand Island,” the ministry’s director of small island empowerment Alex SW Retraubun told a seminar on ocean and climate change at the University of Indonesia.
“We will apply index at the Thousand Island to map the vulnerability of all small islands against the sea level rise in the country. Hopefully, we can finish it this year.”
The 2007 law on small island management says a small island has less than 2,000 kilometers square of width.
A study from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) found that hundreds of small islands in Indonesia were under serious threat due to the sea level rise.
The ADB predicted that the annual temperature was projected to increase by 4.8 degree Celsius by 2100 compared to 1990. This could turn to a 70 centimeter rise in sea levels over the same period.
Adianto P. Simamora , The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 04/30/2009 4:26 PM | National
The government admitted that the country has yet to make a map determining vulnerability index of small islands against sea level rise due to the human-induced climate change.
The ministry of marine and fishery affairs said that the office has so far gave names of 13,366 islands out of about 17,500 across the country.
“We just start mapping vulnerability index of North Jakarta offshore of Thousand Island,” the ministry’s director of small island empowerment Alex SW Retraubun told a seminar on ocean and climate change at the University of Indonesia.
“We will apply index at the Thousand Island to map the vulnerability of all small islands against the sea level rise in the country. Hopefully, we can finish it this year.”
The 2007 law on small island management says a small island has less than 2,000 kilometers square of width.
A study from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) found that hundreds of small islands in Indonesia were under serious threat due to the sea level rise.
The ADB predicted that the annual temperature was projected to increase by 4.8 degree Celsius by 2100 compared to 1990. This could turn to a 70 centimeter rise in sea levels over the same period.