Disaster Management Project 2007 (Part 1)
I promised in my last column that I will write my worked in 2007 as flash back. For you who really impatience to read my story can directly go to EADS Astrium Press Release here. For the patience, here we start…….
Around mid-year 2006 I got the news from PASCO that we should help them for the upcoming project in Indonesia. The project will be from French Government and handle by EADS. My impression at that time is, it should be an important project. As far as I know EADS is a big company specialize in high-technology, they have rocket/launcher unit, satellite, Airbus, weapon and everything you can imagine.
Basically the project is a grant from French people for Indonesian people to help Indonesian Government to save human live in case of disaster. There are some areas they want to improve (hmm sound to good to be true for me ….), some training to increase the human (read public servant) capacity, some tools and equipment to improve the reporting and communication.
In December 2006 some EADS guys come to my office and have meeting with me and my director. To make it short, in February 2007 I should make survey in Jakarta, Banda Aceh and Padang with EADS staff and finally I should go to Toulouse France to EADS Astrium to do Factory Acceptance Test in 3 weeks on March 2007. The project it self should finish in September 2007.
I’m so excited. Working for the community is my passion, knowing that people use my work to improve the quality of human life making me very happy.
The schedule is very tight. In February 2007 I made survey to 4 location, 2 in Jakarta which is Badan Koordinasi Penanggulangan Bencana and Governor Office. Also 1 in Banda Aceh and 1 in Padang which is their Governor Office. I went to those location with Bruno Maestracci from Civipol who provide the grant, Hilarion Raobadia from EADS Astrium and Feni Rani who works for Bruno. This survey is to made sure that the infrastrucutre will be ready for the upcoming project which is included some computers and electronic equipment. The project is planning to start in Bakornas around Mei and follow by implementation in every regional center.
This is the picture of us on Padang and Banda Aceh
On March 2007, I went to EADS Astrium premises in Toulouse to do the factory acceptance test. I went there with my colleague Surjanto who will be concentrated on software. Meanwhile, I will concentrate on network and system. The network and system are consist of several server providing samba server, asterisk server, recorder server, ftp server, database server, as well as vpn and ip phone. The system is built on Linux machine with High Availabilty implementation using vrrpd. On software site there is a custom-made software which is called "RiskFrame" which will be provided spatial database for disaster and risk management.
Here are some picture of us on Toulouse:
After a month there, finally Civipol, the owner of the project can accept all the factory test. Now we are ready to implement the project. It is just the preliminary, the project itself will be in Indonesia. And the interesting, sometimes frustating moment just have to begin. It is all in my head when I was in plane from Europe to Jakarta. Can everything going well so I can finish the project on time?
I will continue the story in the next post.
Till then keep safe and stop global warming.
