Antara News·Indonesia·Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 10:51 AM

Post-disaster recovery requires multidisciplinary approach: BRIN

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Jakarta (ANTARA) - Acting Head of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Organization at Indonesia's National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Muhammad Najib Azca said post-disaster recovery requires a multidisciplinary approach.

"Post-disaster recovery cannot be reduced to technical and administrative matters. It is a complex social process requiring cross-sector cooperation, multidisciplinary approaches and sensitivity to social, cultural and local contexts," Azca said here Wednesday.

He made the remarks while opening a kickoff meeting of BRIN's Sumatra Post-Disaster Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Acceleration Task Force.

From a social sciences and humanities perspective, disasters are not only sudden natural events but are also linked to social conditions that develop over long periods, he said.

Disasters can reflect social relations, resource governance and accumulated vulnerabilities across social, economic, cultural and political dimensions, he said.

Referring to floods and landslides that hit parts of Aceh, North Sumatra and West Sumatra in 2025, he said their impacts were uneven and followed existing lines of inequality.

"Vulnerable groups, whether because of economic circumstances, gender, age or access to resources, are often the hardest hit and the slowest to recover," he said.

The BRIN task force is responsible for connecting action research and technological innovation with the actual needs of disaster-affected communities, he said.

Earlier at the same meeting, Indonesian Red Cross (PMI) Chairman Jusuf Kalla said recovery from hydrometeorological disasters in Sumatra could be maximized through collective efforts involving various stakeholders.

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