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Households Perceptions on Factors Affecting Resilience towards Natural Disasters in Indonesia

South East Asian Journal of Management

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Title Households Perceptions on Factors Affecting Resilience towards Natural Disasters in Indonesia
 
Creator Viverita Viverita; Universitas Indonesia
Ratih Dyah Kusumastuti; Universitas Indonesia
Zaafri Ananto Husodo; Universitas Indonesia
Lenny Suardi; Universitas Indonesia
Dwi Nastiti Danarsari; Universitas Indonesia
 
Subject Risk Management
 
Description Most areas in Indonesia are prone to natural disasters. Learning the lessons from the Aceh Tsunami in 2004, areas with high risks of natural disasters are in the process of preparing themselves for such an unexpected event, by increasing their resilience. The objective of this study is to shed more lights on factors affecting the resilience from two sources namely, existing literatures and the application of disaster management in four disaster-prone areas in Indonesia -Padang, Sleman, Cilacap, and Palu. To enrich our analysis, we collect data from the field to compare the preparedness and to get insights on people’s perceptions towards the factors of resilience in those areas.We employ IDI and FGD to identify the factors of resilience and the preparedness in the areas investigated. Thereafter, a preliminary survey is conducted to identify people’s perceptions towards the aspects of resilience in the areas. Results from the survey conducted to 800 households in Padang and Cilacap indicates that from the social aspect, community’s value cohesiveness is one of important factor affecting their resilience towards natural disaster. In addition, when disaster occurred, they heavily relied on the help of debt or selling some of their assets, as well as used cash in hand as emergency funds. In general, respondents in all sample cities are able to re-start their economic activities as soon as two weeks after the event of disaster. In addition, the survey found that most of respondents were aware that the government has programs to educate people on the disaster mitigation.
 
Publisher Department of Management, Faculty of Economics and Business, Universitas Indonesia
 
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Date 2014-05-05
 
Type Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://journal.ui.ac.id/index.php/tseajm/article/view/3099
 
Source The South East Asian Journal of Management; Vol 8, No 1 (2014): April 2014
 
Language en
 
Coverage Indonesia

Households