Transdisciplinary Research Strategy On Crisis Management And Resilience Of Population

The Case Of Tourism Destinations In South-East Asia

Abstract

Indonesia and Vietnam are countries subject to a wide range of risks. The Archipelago already has a culture of preparedness and response, through its National Agency for Disaster Management (Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana, BNPB). In Vietnam, the permanent structure is the Vietnam Disaster Management Authority (VNDMA), which reports to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD). France is currently providing both countries with its knowledge of hazards (seismic, volcanic, but also climate change and forest fires) through its operators and research centers as well as the Directorate for Security and Defense Cooperation, in a dispersed manner.

At the time the project was submitted, BNPB wanted to strengthen its “actionable” knowledge base through a collaboration with France and around a vision combining governance and resilience in a growing tourism destination. From their side, the French embassies in Indonesia and Vietnam were both concerned about the risks to which tourists are exposed in these countries.

The “Transdisciplinary research strategy on crisis management and resilience of population” ‘STRAP’ project has been funded as part of the Fonds Equipe France (FEF). It aims to bring together teaching, research and civil protection teams to improve the safety and resilience of populations about the issue of risk prevention and crisis management. It has two main objectives:

• The structuring of a 5-year roadmap, aimed at BNPB, for the implementation of transdisciplinary Franco-Indonesian research (researchers/ practitioners) and including a Vietnamese and/or ASEAN dimension;
• The implementation of two transdisciplinary pilot projects on “resilience of population and digital technology” in the rapidly developing tourist areas of Labuan Bajo in Indonesia and the Province of Quanh Binh in Vietnam.

To do so, a community-centered approach has been adopted in the implementation of both objectives.

This book presents and gathers the roadmap and its constitutive topics. It has been collaboratively realized from July 2024 to April 2025:

From July to October 2024, Indonesian, Vietnamese and French research teams have been reached to contribute to this roadmap and characterize the existing and future areas of collaboration. Once the project and its main stakes were presented, each team has been asked to propose a topic or challenge. Based on this first pool of research teams, a first hybrid workshop took place in December 2024, where each team presented their area of expertise and the challenge(s) they were willing to address in the road map.

Based on this first workshop, teams representing at least two countries have been proposed to address a specific challenge and foster their cooperation.

Each teams met at least once online in order to discuss and prepare the content of the constitutive challenge(s) of the roadmap presented during a second workshop in March 2025. This second workshop gave a first overview of the roadmap, completed by two additional on-going Franco-Indonesian projects in Lampung and Semarang. Feedbacks have been formulated, specifically by BNPB, in order to support the teams to finalize the roadmap. Also, a call for independent contributions from research teams and/or from the Asia Pacific area have been opened through the ISCRAM community network to complement the roadmap.

The final hybrid workshop of presentation of the roadmap by team took place the 24th of April 2025. It included the contextualization of the project and its transdisciplinary stakes (see the following Introduction by Udrech), the results of the collaboration between Indonesian, Vietnamese and French teams (see Part 1), the independent proposals as well as the first insights of the both pilot-surveys conducted in the Province of Quang Binh (Vietnam) and in Labuan Bajo (Indonesia) (see Part 2).