Post On : August 31, 2017
PT Reasuransi MAIPARK Indonesia launched MAIPARK Hydra-a Web-based application featuring data on floods in Indonesia, along with the second flood symposium on climate change. The symposium was held at MAIPARK Ballroom, Gedung Permata Kuningan, Jakarta and was attended by Technical Director along with underwriters from all insurance, reinsurance companies in Indonesia. The symposium aims to showcase the latest developments in the Science of Flood related disasters, such as hydrology and hydrodynamics, flood modeling and forecasting, weather and climate, information management and decision support systems based on Geographic Information Systems, strategies and approaches, community awareness and participation. Besides this symposium also aims to support the further capacity improvement of natural disaster handling from the insurance industry business sector in Indonesia.
Apart from flood prevention strategies, new approaches to accommodate increased flood risk are needed to create sustainable solutions and enable to address the growing urban areas especially in flood-prone areas and emerging uncertainties caused by climate change. Now comes the urgency to exchange information on developments and experiences in research, policy and management. Therefore, at the symposium, we present the results of a study from the Jakarta Floods Research Team related to flood disaster, as well as introducing MAIPARK - Hydrology Analysis (HYDRA), a Web-based application developed by Research and Innovation (RDI) Group, PT Reasuransi MAIPARK Indonesia.
This application was built to share the results of RDI flood research related to historical flood events and flood risk for the Jakarta area to the general public. In addition there is a feature to perform a simple loss simulation due to flood based on the height of the immersion and the type of building. Of course it will help to identify and assess the potential flood in a location. The second version of HYDRA has advantages over the first version launched in 2015. Among them are features historical data, flood models for all of Indonesia, not just Jakarta. The resolution is higher up to 10 M whereas previously 30 M. HYDRA is accessible to the public with only 90% composition, while about 10% is accessible only by ceding companies related to the flood insurance zone.