Transfer of technology within the establishment of InaTEWS

Following the high magnitude earthquake that generated a gigantic tsunami in Aceh in 2004, the Indonesian government initiated work to develop the Indonesia Tsunami Early Warning System (InaTEWS). The work aimed to develop a system that would disseminate a warning within 5 minutes all over Indonesia. The State Ministry of Research and Technology (Ristek) developed the system in co-ordination with several institutions. InaTEWS, inaugurated on 11 November 2008, is being used as part of daily operations by the Agency for Meteorology Climatology and Geophysics. This transfer of technology has enabled the InaTEWS to warn about the occurrence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes and Tsunami, within five minutes via the 5-in-1 system to authorities all over Indonesia.

This paper discusses the process of development approach used in the work.

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