Jakarta, Oct. 2 -- Indonesia and the United Kingdom have launched a joint white paper on geohazard research, aimed at strengthening disaster risk assessment and policy-making in Southeast Asia's largest economy.

The "UK-Indonesia Partnerships for Advancing Geohazard Science for Disaster Risk Assessment in Indonesia" was introduced on Thursday by Ocky Karna Radjasa, head of the Earth and Maritime Research Organization at the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN).

He said the initiative would boost national research capacity and ensure policy decisions are grounded in science.

"This collaboration is a model of how science, policy, and society must work together to address the challenges of geological disasters," Radjasa told rep...