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Lessons from Cianjur: earthquake-prone Indonesia does not have seismic mitigation plan

Written by Jonatan A Lassa, Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management and Course Coordinator (Acting) for Master of Public Policy, IFEA College, Charles Darwin University

The SAR team is looking for victims buried in an earthquake landslide in Cianjur Regency, West Java, Indonesia, November 24, 2022. BETWEEN PHOTOS/Yulius Satria Wijaya/hp

More than 340 people are dead or missing following a relatively small but shallow 5.6 magnitude earthquake in Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency...

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