Senior Lecturer, Humanitarian Emergency and Disaster Management, Charles Darwin University
Prior to joining CDU, Jonatan worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for Non-Traditional Security Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore where he led climate change adaptation, food security and disaster risk reduction research in that role.
Prior to that, Jonatan was a Senior Research Fellow with the Institute of Resource Governance and Social Change (IRGSC) and a Willis Research Fellow at Institute of Catastrophe and Risk Management - NTU. He has also previously served as a PhD researcher with the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security in Bonn (Germany) and as an Indonesia Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ash Center, Harvard Kennedy School (USA). In his professional career, he has also worked with the United Nations, international NGOs and the private sector
Caravan communities: older, underinsured and overexposed to cyclones, storms and disasters
Jan 19, 2021 02:33 am UTC| Nature
News of storms battering parts of Queensland and the threat posed by Cyclone Kimi reminded me of a recent experience Id had. A few months after Cyclone Marcus unleashed havoc on Darwin in 2018, uprooting trees and...
Reviewing Indonesia's tsunami early warning strategy: Reflections from Palu
Oct 04, 2018 15:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Nature
The 7,5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that had hit Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi Indonesia last Friday, has killed at least 1,300 people. Some 99 people are missing, 799 injured and nearly 60 thousand...
After devastating earthquakes, Indonesia must embrace radical change
Aug 08, 2018 11:56 am UTC| Insights & Views Nature
An earthquake on Lombok island in Indonesia has left 98 people dead and 20,000 people homeless, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. Around 70% of North Lomboks housing stock has either collapsed or...