Co-creation of urban hazard, vulnerability and risk information system towards sustainable regional development trajectories in Sulawesi, Indonesia

Indonesia has endowed with various natural hazards, especially flooding, which has been on top of frequency list—155 occurrences at 2018. It potentially impacted in many ways especially in urban area across Indonesia caused 145,338 displaced lives. This research envisages the important use of urban hazard information system towards pursuing sustainable regional development in Sulawesi, Indonesia. In more details, the research aims to analyse characteristics of disaster statistics established in Indonesia and evaluate its implementation for three research areas in Sulawesi. The expected outcome of the research is to generate any relevant method of disaster statistics necessary for Sulawesi. Sulawesi is a pivotal region at the eastern part of Indonesia, whereas there are three urban area subjected to flood, such as Kota Manado, Kota Makassar and Kota Gorontalo. These urbanized areas are located at the downstream area of a specified watershed system; therefore, it likely exposed to flooding from 4 to 14 occurrences per 2018. The research findings are twofold: (1) there are two types of disaster information in Indonesia, serving national-scale and local-scale observations. These information system covers hazard, vulnerability, capacity and risk information; (2) Sulawesi has incorporated risk information into its local spatial planning; however, the spatial structure plan accumulated at high-risk areas. Given to such finding, the sustainable development programme in Sulawesi had been scrutinized. Hence, the use and usefulness of disaster information for Sulawesi are questioned. The challenge for further research is to come up with co-creation of disaster information for better use of the disaster information.