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The Rehabilitation and Reconstruction
Process of the Tsunami impact in Aceh and some area of Sumatera Utara
needs support from all aspects including the data spatial. Forum
Remote Sensing and GIS Indonesia (RSGISForum) has given support to all
Institutions and individuals, as well as to some volunteers from
Indonesia and other countries to get data and spatial information
about Aceh and Sumut.
Meeting
Report
by
Andree Ekadinata, ICRAF Southeast Asia (a.ekadinata@cgiar.org)
The
second workshop of Remote Sensing and GIS Forum (RSGIS Forum) was held
in Jakarta Media Centre, February 15th, 2005. The workshop
was attended by a total of 150 participants from RSGIS Forum members,
BIOTROP, Bogor Agricultural University, Bandung Institute of
Technology (ITB), University of Indonesia (UI), BAKOSURTANAL, BAPPENAS,
Department of Defense, DITTOP TNI AD, etc. Opening speech by Hartanto
from RSGIS Forum remarked several important point regarding the
current status and future plans of RSGIS Forum, which are:
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The increased
of RSGIS Forum members up to more than 1000 members since the first
phase activities on Aceh and North Sumatra
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Cooperation
between RSGIS Forum and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on numerous
aspect including funding for workshop, producing CD which contain all
data gathered by RSGIS Forum to anyone who need it, free of charge
(first version of the CD has been distributed during workshop), etc.
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Future plans of
RSGIS Forum activities including web-based mapping and large scale
mapping activity.
Five
different topics were presented at the forum, one of it is the
presentation from Sofyan Haroen who is the Walikota Kabupaten Sabang,
Aceh Province. He presented the magnitude of destruction in
Sabang city, where more than 200 people died and almost all coastlines
destroyed. Several other interesting issues raised during the workshop
are:
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Clear statement
from representation of Ministry of Defense that the Department of
Defense will actively join RSGIS Forum. The same statement also came
out from DITTOP TNI AD. Both of the institutions are in charge to give
‘security clearence’ on any kind of detail mapping committed in
Indonesia including aerial photo etc.
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The needs of
thematic maps covering different topics to support various activity of
different institution. Four groups of thematic maps is currently
needed and not yet available: biophysical maps, social and agraria
maps, land suitability maps (currently developed by IPB team), and
infrastructure maps.
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Suggestion to
merged with BAKOSURTANAL Forum. The forum is formed by BAKOSURTANAL
with similar purpose and activities to RSGIS Forum. No coordination
has been committed yet between the two forum.
More
information » http://inisiatif.rsgisforum.net/workshop_050215.html
Aceh information: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/sea/W-New/aceh.asp
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