Forging a Resilient Alliance: Unleashing the Potential of Australia-Indonesia Relations on Disaster Management
Indonesia holds the highest number of active volcanoes in the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it highly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes and tsunamis. Australia is not in any more vantage point either, with an increase of devastating and tragic phenomena and extreme weather as the consequences of climate change. Considering the long history of cooperation between the two countries, including the fields of natural disaster management, this article aims to analyze how Australia and Indonesia have the prospect to strengthen their bilateral relations in addressing the challenges, by analyzing the way cooperative disaster management worked in the past between the two countries. It also seeks to argue that by cooperating together, Australia and Indonesia can build a stronger foundation for regional collaboration, promoting greater resilience, and reducing the human and economic costs of disasters for their countries and the broader region.
