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For me, there was nothing quite as awe inspiring as seeing a live volcano.<\/p>\n

A year and a half ago, i had visited the Indonesian city of Jogjakarta (Sanskrit yogyakarta) to shoot a part of my documentary on Disaster Risk Reduction. The documentary looked at communities living in disaster prone areas – and the actions that they took to mitigate the effects of nature.<\/p>\n

Mount Merapi – in Yogyakarta last blew in 2006.
\nthe villagers living a lava puff away from the mountain survived because they were trained to ! they said that they love the area, and love the mountain and will learn to live with the volcano and its fumes.<\/p>\n

\"life<\/a>
\nWhen it last erupted, there was no loss of life, nor was there major disruption to livelihood or major damage to property.<\/p>\n

The reason being that they adopted good practices from Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
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One of the activities that local communities undertook was the planting of saplings -which would grow into trees and hold the soil to prevent it from being eroded under the force of lava flow.<\/p>\n

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\nAfterall, the heat has the ability to reduce everything to a burnt out shell.<\/p>\n

\"kentongen\"<\/a><\/p>\n

An early warning system was the Kentongen – a system that allows the village to warn people that the volcano was about to erupt to allow people to escape to a higher level.<\/p>\n

IT was this awareness of the hazard and training in ways to mitigate the effects of the hazard that allowed people in the foothills of the Merapi to lead a ‘normal’ life<\/p>\n

\"water\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Today, when i read reports of dozens dead<\/a> <\/strong> it is with sadness. Yet, i know that but for the work of NGO”s who work tirelessly in the area of DRR – the death toll would have been even higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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