Are you aware that the global warming effect also affected Indonesia? The research showed that the uncertain climate change that happen in Indonesia is one of the effects of global warming.
Global warming brings many changes in Indonesia, including some natural disasters that happen recently. The irregular differences between seasons in Indonesia become pretty clear the effect of global warming.
The longer dry or rainy season in a year affects some natural disasters that unpredictably exist. It could bring more dangers to the population, which can be a victim because of that.
Are you wondering what kind of natural disaster is due to global warming in Indonesia? Here we have some of them with a short explanation below. Let’s check them out!
1. Forest fire
Forest fire becomes one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. Global warming affected Indonesia to have an extreme heat than usual. That makes sense if it caused forest fires natural disasters in Indonesia rapidly, such as in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
Indonesia has a larger forest compare to other countries in Asia. That makes sense if global warming affects the forest easily. Moreover, the dry season is longer than usual increasing the weather around the forest.
Forest fires in Indonesia could easily happen due to global warming. Without good prevention, the disaster would get worse.
2. Landslide
Landslide is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. The rainy season that comes longer than usual brings natural disasters to some unstable landscapes. It leads to some landslide disasters in Indonesia significantly.
Since Indonesia contains hills and mountains, most landscapes can be more steep and have unstable soil. Heavy rain that strikes the area within days could make it worst. Not surprisingly the natural disaster of landslides couldn’t be avoided.
Due to global warming, landslides in Indonesia happen more often than usual. The unstable soil with a steep landscape, the highest cities in Indonesia, such as some lands of Java Island, becomes the riskiest one. The most deadly landslide disaster in Indonesia that happened in Banjarnegara regency becomes one of the natural disasters affected by global warming.
3. Dryness
Dryness is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. Similar to the landslide natural disaster, extreme weather that caused a longer dry season brings dryness to some areas in Indonesia.
Moreover, some areas that were already dry before would become drier after the global warming effect. Dryness brings many difficulties not only for the population but also for the nature balance.
The dryness that affected some areas in Indonesia, such as Bima of West Nusa Tenggara and East Sumba of East Nusa Tenggara also caused another disaster. Clean water crisis, failed harvest, failed food stock, and many more.
4. Failed harvest
Failed harvest is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. It commonly happens in Papua, which has one of the most isolated tribes in Indonesia, Cirebon, and some areas in Central Java.
Harvest needs a balance of the rainy season and dry season to bring a successful one. If one of the weather comes too longer it would make the harvest fail.
Harvest modification needs to be done to prevent a failed harvest before it becomes the worst disaster.
5. Starving disaster
Starving disaster is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia as the dryness disaster caused failed harvest. That makes sense if the starving tragedy becomes a natural disaster caused by global warming.
Starving disasters that commonly happen in Indonesia due to global warming attack some areas in Papua. The higher land that has failed harvest becomes the highest risk area to have this disaster.
Prevention of starvation disasters becomes a bit difficult in Papua. The difficult landscape makes the help comes too late to get there.
6. Clean water crisis
The clean water crisis is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. As the weather changes uncertainly, the dry season could come longer than usual. Longer dry seasons caused a clean water crisis significantly.
Moreover, if the dryness disaster comes. Clean water becomes hard to get, which caused a disaster. Some areas even have no water source anymore because of the disaster.
Some areas in Indonesia affected by the clean water crisis disasters commonly happen in some areas such as Bima of West Nusa Tenggara and East Sumba of East Nusa Tenggara.
7. Tsunami potential
Tsunami potential is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. The higher increase in the seawater level can cause a tsunami. Due to global warming, as the weather changes uncertainly, tsunami potential becomes a high risk in Indonesia.
The archipelago of Indonesia is surrounded by the ocean. Not surprisingly, tsunami potential becomes a higher risk in some areas on the coast. As the seawater increases rapidly it would bring danger to the population and every creature over there.
The Tsunami of 2004 in Aceh and the Tsunami of 2018 in Sunda Strait becomes the real natural disaster due to global warming in Indonesia.
8. Fog disaster
Fog disaster is one of the natural disasters due to global warming in Indonesia. Fog disasters caused by forest fires in Indonesia strike some areas, such as in Kalimantan and Sumatra.
In Sumatra, commonly in Riau and Palembang fog disasters caused by forest fires due to global warming bring another disaster significantly. Other illnesses, such as difficulty breathing and coughs attack many populations over there.
Fog disasters commonly spread rapidly without warning. That makes sense that global warming which caused forest fires lead to fog disasters.
All of those natural disasters above that happened in Indonesia due to global warming affect the danger to the population in Indonesia. The victims that survive also live in despair, which makes it difficult to heal their life.
