JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post): The National Coordinating Agency for Disaster Management aims to have an extensive tsunami early warning system operational next year.
There are 16 institutions working on the establishment of the system, along with teams from Germany, Japan, the United States and China, the agency's managing director, Lt. Gen. (ret) Syamsul Ma'arif said at an inauguration ceremony for the Surabaya Muhammadiyah University in Surabaya, East Java, on Saturday.
He said the most important link in the warning system was still the weakest: communicating disaster information to the public and relevant institutions by television, radio, cell phone or siren.
"Besides the tsunami early warning system, we have also developed an early warning system for volcanic activity using seismographs as well as systems to monitor weather, floods and earthquakes.
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