In this section, we will look specifically into the impacts that moving plates are having on Indonesia, both economically and on the everyday lives of the people there. However, the high occurrence of natural disasters in Indonesia, as well as their fluctuating severity means that it is difficult to both find and describe the annual average economic impact that natural disasters are having. Because of this, we will instead emphasize two major case studies regarding recent disasters in Indonesia as a basis to give you an idea of the range of impacts different disasters are having on Indonesia, as well as the extent to these disasters from plate tectonics have affected Indonesia.
We have subdivided the various natural disasters into the following categories:
We have subdivided the various natural disasters into the following categories: