Indonesia's tourism
industry
remains
one of the
significant components of the
Indonesian economy. Tourism numbers have been growing from 5.5 million in 2007 to 7 million in 2010,
according to Indonesia
Statistics. Moreover, the government has a target of 15 million of tourism numbers in 2017.
Indonesia's
destination
for tourism is a strategic role in Indonesia. Bali is known for its unique culture and beautiful
beaches
and
volcanos. According to data from the Bali Tourism Office, there are 141 tourist destinations
spread across
eight regencies and one city.
Behind its popularity of world tourist destinations, lies an active volcano called
Mount Agung (Gunung Agung). Mount Agung is the highest mountain on the
island of Bali
located in
Karangasem district. At the end of 2017, a great mountain release eruption that had an impact on the
tourism and economic sector in Bali. With huge numbers of tourists visiting Bali, the existence of the
Mount Agung volcano which is one of the active volcano mountains that has the latest
eruption activity and the eruption continues to the present. Based on simulation data on the impact of
the movement of Mount Agung activities on the Balinese economy made by Bank of Indonesia (BI), there is
the potential to lose 1.2 million tourists throughout the fourth
quarter of this year. BI
also estimates
that there will be an economic loss in the amount of Rp2.47 trillion (USD
177 Billions).
As we are trying to get a better understanding of how far the destruction potential in
Mount Agung in the future. Using the data from the Indonesia Geospatial Agency, this is vulnerability
area caused by the Mount Agung eruption. There are 3 zones of
disaster-prone that categorised by its
destruction level: Zone III (Red), Zone II (Orange), and
Zone I (Yellow).
Here are the locations of mostly visited tourism
objects in Karangasem district.
There are some tourism objects and their surrounding built up areas that will be potentially affected by
the volcano eruption.
When it comes to disaster risk reduction (DRR), especially to reduce the disaster
impacts for human being, we need participative action from the stakeholders ranging from local
government, local communities, tourism operators, and the tourists themselves. Time and spots are the
keys in succeeding evacuation when disaster happens.
Hence, the isochrone visualization were available to help estimate the time needed to access the nearest
evacuation post within 20 minutes.