Overseas Training > 2010 > Mohd Remy Rozainy Mohd Arif Zainol
Mohd Remy Rozainy Mohd Arif Zainol
Data collection and observation at a debris flow site near Ciwidey, Citarum River basin
Flood Disaster Laboratory, Division of Planning Methodology for
Environmental Disaster Mitigation, Department of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering
Place of stay: Research Center for Water Resources (RCWR), Bandung, Indonesia
Term: March 8 – March 28, 2010
It was a golden opportunity for me to go to Bandung, Indonesia for my internship. At the Research Center for Water Resources (RCWR) in Bandung, I worked under Dr. Agung Bagiawan (RCWR researcher) and Mr. Yudha Mediawan (Head of RCWR). The main objectives of my internship were to understand the characteristics of debris flows near the Citarum River basin, visit one of the debris flow sites, and collect relevant data that would be useful for my research. I feel that these objectives were achieved. During the trip, I attended meetings and called on various government and private sector officers. For example, I visited were Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (Ir. Henry Purnomo), Bandung Institute of Technology (Dr. Imam A. Sadisun), Deltares (JanJaap Brinkman), Universiti Sains Malaysia (Dr. Ismail Abustan), and Indonesian Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics. In addition, I visited a site near Ciwidey, Citarum River basin, where a debris flow occurred on February 23, 2010 producing a large numbers of casualties including 70 deaths.
