Humanitarian logistics information system for natural disaster: A case study on East Java, under the coordination of Indonesian red cross

Indonesia is known as a country with high disaster risk. Many disasters occur such as earthquakes, tsunami, landslides, and floods. Therefore an efficient and effective disaster management system becomes a priority among the government programs. One element of disaster management system is the humanitarian logistics, which is important in handling the logistics of the stuff needed by the victims of the disaster. There are red cross application from many countries, however only few application that relate donor, volunteer and logistics. By implementing this system, the victims of the disaster can receive any stuff needed on time and in sufficient quantity. Information system is an important factor in handling an efficient logistics. Therefore this paper is discussing a humanitarian information system that has been developed. The system is developed using deep interview process, on side visitation and modelling process. The information system is developed using an integrated web-based model under the coordination of Red Cross Indonesia (IRC), East Java province. In this research, the integration system involves many parties such as supermarkets, donors, volunteers, and disaster posts. The result of this research is a logistics information system design including Web-based User Interface for the administrator, donors, shelters, supermarkets and mobile device user interface designed for volunteers. The user interface will help Indonesia Red Cross to collect stuffs and distribute them to victims more efficient after the user interfaces have been approved the head of Indonesia Red Cross.