{
  "id": 8476627,
  "title": "Analysis: Indonesia’s disaster budget faces a cost-benefit test",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/analysis-indonesias-disaster-budget-faces-a-cost-benefit-test-8476627",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-19T00:00:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Jakarta Post Academia",
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Indonesia faces an unfortunate fiscal paradox: Just as the government has cut disaster-mitigation funding to the bone, disasters have struck with unforgiving regularity. President Prabowo Subianto himself has acknowledged that disasters are part and parcel of life in the archipelago. Yet his administration has slashed the National Disaster Mitigation Agency’s (BNPB) budget to just Rp 491 billion…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Phys.org",
        "title": "When disaster crosses borders, Indonesia's credibility is tested twice",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/when-disaster-crosses-borders-indonesias-credibility-is-tested-twice",
        "published": "2026-09-18T14:40:07.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Jakarta Post",
        "title": "Analysis: Indonesia’s disaster budget faces a cost-benefit test",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/analysis-indonesias-disaster-budget-faces-a-cost-benefit-test",
        "published": "2026-09-19T00:00:03.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}