Biography:Danny Hilman Natawidjaja
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja | |
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| Born | Subang, Jawa Barat |
| Nationality | Indonesian |
| Alma mater | Institut Teknologi Bandung (BSc) University of Auckland (MSc) Caltech (PhD) |
| Occupation | Researcher |
| Known for | Earthquake expert[1][2] |
Danny Hilman Natawidjaja is an Indonesian geologist specializing in earthquake geology[1] and geotectonics at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) Research Center for Geotechnology.
In Indonesia, Natawidjaja has contributed to research on local tectonic plates. Since 2000, he has made predictions regarding the earthquake on the west coast of Sumatra Island.[3]
Education
Natawidjaja graduated with a BSc degree in geology from the Bandung Institute of Technology (Indonesia) in 1984. He then went to the University of Auckland (New Zealand) where he obtained an MSc degree (with Honors) in Geology in 1992. Finally, he went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech, United States) where he earned a PhD in Geology in 1998,[4][5][6] with a thesis focussing on neotectonics and earthquake studies.[7]
Career
Natawidjaja became the initiator and coordinator of earthquake research at LIPI in 2002. With grants, he pioneered and developed a continuous network of SuGAr GPS stations since 2002 to monitor tectonic movements in Sumatra in collaboration with Caltech USA and the Earth Observatory of Singapore.
He became the head of the national team for the preparation of Guidelines for Natural Disaster Risk Analysis (PARBA) organized by UNDP and BNPB in 2008–2009.
He initiated and became a core member of Team-9 to revise the National MapSeismic Hazard Indonesia which was later published by the Ministry of PUPR (id) in 2010 and used as the main reference in Standar Nasional Indonesia (id) 1726-2012 for the implementation of earthquake resistant building codes.
He initiated and developed a Postgraduate program in Earthquake Studies at ITB known as the Graduate Research in Earthquake and Active Tectonics (GREAT) Program which was funded by the Australian-Indonesia Facility for Earthquake Disaster Reduction (AIFDR) bilateral program 2010–2017.
He became Chair of the Geology Working Group of the National Earthquake Study Center (PuSGeN) since 2016 to revise the Seismic Hazard Map of Indonesia which was then published by the Ministry of PUPR in 2017 and referred to by SNI 1726–2019 to replace the previous SNI.[8]
In 2018, Natawidjaja was cited in multiple media articles about the July 2018 Lombok earthquake and aftershocks.[9][10][11][12]
Pyramid claims
In 2011, he took a leading part in the controversial geological survey of the archeological site at Gunung Padang as chief geologist of the government-sponsored Tim Terpadu Riset Mandiri (TTRM, 'Integrated and Independent Research Team').[13]
Natawidjaja's conclusions gained the attention of Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who set up a task force.[14] An archaeologist who did not wish to be named due to the involvement of the country's president, stated:
In archaeology we usually find the 'culture' first … Then, after we find out the artefact's age we'll seek out historical references to any civilisation which existed around that period. Only then will we be able to explain the artefact historically. In this case, they 'found' something, carbon-dated it, then it looks like they created a civilisation around the period to explain their finding.[15]
In October 2023, an article by Natawidjaja et al., published in Archaeological Prospection, claimed that Gunung Padang is the oldest pyramid in the world, dating as far back as 27,000 years ago. Archaeologists, responding to the extraordinary claims, pointed out the lack of evidence for the buried layers being artificially created, and the absence of indicators for human activity in the soil samples, such as charcoal and bone fragments. The journal and its publisher, Wiley, have since launched an investigation into the paper.[16]
In 2023 he claimed to have discovered a 75,000 year old pyramid in Lake Toba, north Sumatra. The Indonesian Geological Agency expressed doubts about the claim, suggesting that it may be one of the triangular facets found on the hills of the lake that formed after the caldera was formed and then used by later civilizations.[17]
Awards
- Sarwono Prawirohardjo Award from the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (2005);[18]
- Satyalancana Karya Satya X Year (1999), Satyalancana Karya Satya XX Year (2008) and Satyalancana Karya Satya XXX Year (2017) from the President of the Republic of Indonesia.[8]
Bibliography
- Natawidjaya, Danny Hilman (2013) (in id). Plato tidak bohong Atlantis ada di Indonesia. Indonesia: Booknesia. ISBN 978-6021832929.
Selected journal articles
- Sieh, K; Natawidjaja, D (December 10, 2000). "Neotectonics of the Sumatran fault, Indonesia". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 105 (B12): 28295–28326. doi:10.1029/2000JB900120. Bibcode: 2000JGR...10528295S.
- Natawidjaja, DH et al. (April 2004). "Paleogeodetic records of seismic and aseismic subduction from central Sumatran microatolls, Indonesia". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 109 (B4). doi:10.1029/2003JB002398. Bibcode: 2004JGRB..109.4306N.
- Briggs, RW et al. (March 31, 2006). "Deformation and slip along the Sunda megathrust in the great 2005 Nias-Simeulue earthquake". Science 311 (5769): 1897–1901. doi:10.1126/science.1122602. PMID 16574861. Bibcode: 2006Sci...311.1897B.
- Natawidjaja, DH et al. (June 2006). "Source parameters of the great Sumatran megathrust earthquakes of 1797 and 1833 inferred from coral microatolls". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 111 (B6). doi:10.1029/2005JB004025. Bibcode: 2006JGRB..111.6403N.
- Chlieh, M et al. (May 2008). "Heterogeneous coupling of the Sumatran megathrust constrained by geodetic and paleogeodetic measurements". Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth 113 (B5). doi:10.1029/2007JB004981. Bibcode: 2008JGRB..113.5305C.
- Sieh, K et al. (December 12, 2008). "Earthquake supercycles inferred from sea-level changes recorded in the corals of west Sumatra". Science 322 (5908): 1674–1678. doi:10.1126/science.1163589. PMID 19074346. Bibcode: 2008Sci...322.1674S. http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/172710.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 AFP (December 24, 2009). "Asia quietly marks fifth anniversary of deadly tidal wave". France24.com. https://www.france24.com/en/20091226-asia-quietly-marks-fifth-anniversary-deadly-tidal-wave.
- ↑ "Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, Sang Pakar Gempa yang Diakui Dunia" (in id). December 24, 2014. https://pojoksatu.id/kisah-inspiratif/2014/12/24/danny-hilman-natawidjaja-sang-pakar-gempa-yang-diakui-dunia/.
- ↑ "Danny Hilman Peneliti Tsunami Indonesia yang Diakui oleh Dunia" (in id-ID). December 26, 2017. https://kumparan.com/kumparannews/danny-hilman-peneliti-tsunami-indonesia-yang-diakui-oleh-dunia.
- ↑ "LIPI Community Profile: Danny Hilman Natawidjaja" (in id). Indonesian Institute of Sciences. http://lipi.go.id/staf/detail/dann002.
- ↑ California Institute of Technology; One Hundred and Ninth Annual Commencement, June 13, 2003 – website CaltechCampusPubs
- ↑ Danny Hilman Natawidjaja, LIPI (Indonesian Institute of Sciences) – website of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)
- ↑ PhD thesis Danny Hilman Natawidjaja: Neotectonics of the Sumatran Fault and Paleogeodesy of the Sumatran Subduction Zone – website Caltech Library Service
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Natawidjaja, Danny Hilman (2021) (in id). Riset Sesar Aktif Indonesia dan Peranannya dalam Mitigasi Bencana Gempa dan Tsunami. doi:10.14203/press.400. ISBN 9786024962364. https://e-service.lipipress.lipi.go.id/press/catalog/book/400. Retrieved 2022-11-17.
- ↑ Faulder, Dominic (April 4, 2018). "Is the Ring of Fire becoming more active?". Nikkei Asia. https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-Big-Story/Is-the-Ring-of-Fire-becoming-more-active.
- ↑ Mason, Margie (September 29, 2018). "Paradise bay likely made Indonesia tsunami more dangerous". Yahoo! News. https://news.yahoo.com/earthquake-spawned-tsunami-leaves-path-death-indonesia-125908634.html.
- ↑ Roughneen, Simon (August 8, 2018). "Power and water outages plague quake-ravaged Indonesian island as death toll rises to 131". Los Angeles Times. https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-indonesia-quake-20180808-story.html.
- ↑ "Why multiple earthquakes are rattling one Indonesian island". Phys.org. August 20, 2018. https://phys.org/news/2018-08-multiple-earthquakes-rattling-indonesian-island.html.
- ↑ Sulistyowati, D. and Foe, A.W., 2021. Indonesia's Own ‘pyramid’: The Imagined Past and Nationalism of Gunung Padang. International Review of Humanities Studies, 6(1). pp. 125–137.
- ↑ Pérez García, Víctor Lluís (2017). "Gunung Padang y el megalitismo indo-malayo: Arqueología y pseudoarqueología". Arqueoweb: Journal of Archeology on the Internet 18 (1): 62–104. https://webs.ucm.es/info/arqueoweb/pdf/18/04_PerezGarcia.pdf. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ↑ Bachelard, Michael (2013-07-27). "Digging for the truth at controversial megalithic site. Sydney Morning Herald, 27 July 2013". www.smh.com.au. http://www.smh.com.au/world/digging-for-the-truth-at-controversial-megalithic-site-20130726-2qphb.html.
- ↑ Lewis, Dyani (28 November 2023). "A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits an extraordinary archaeological claim". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-023-03546-w.
- ↑ Bhwana, Petir Garda (22 October 2023). "75,000-year-old Pyramid in Lake Toba; Geological Agency Voices Its Doubts" (in en). Tempo. https://en.tempo.co/read/1787122/75000-year-old-pyramid-in-lake-toba-geological-agency-voices-its-doubts.
- ↑ Liputan6.com (August 23, 2005). "Pakar Gempa LIPI Mendapat Penghargaan" (in id). Liputan6.com. https://www.liputan6.com/news/read/107746/pakar-gempa-lipi-mendapat-penghargaan.
Further reading
- Petit, Charlie (May 28, 2013). "Indonesian Geologist says region is perfect match for Plato's Atlantis (or…. what a science writer could'a asked)". Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://ksj.mit.edu/tracker-archive/indonesian-geologist-says-region-perfect/.
External links
- Danny Hilman Natawidjaja publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Danny Hilman Natawidjaja on IMDb
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