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Welcome to DEWS
The disaster of 2004 demonstrated drastically the urgent need for a new generation of reliable tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean Region. Since then much progress has been made to minimise the threats to human life caused by such ravaging events.
Especially for Indonesia, the GITEWS project (German Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System), that started in 2005 and expires in 2008, has been very successful so far.
Banda Aceh (©Foto: L.M. Anders)
Within the frame of the new DEWS project, funded by the EU, a consortium of a well balanced number of public and private organisations from several EU member states and the INCO countries Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka are working closely together in order to design and implement an open, standard based early warning system for the Indian Ocean.
A broad range of competence and application experience will build up a system with focus on the advance warning time and on a functioning information logistics for warnings, both at national and at international level. Additionally, competent support comes from Japan and New Zealand in the field of geoscientific experience and long-term disaster prevention.
 The Indonesian coast, between Banda Aceh and Meulaboh, after the earthquake and the tsunami of 26 December 2004 (©UNESCO/Evan Schneider).
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