ANALYSIS COMMUNITY’S COPING STRATEGIES AND LOCAL RISK GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK IN RELATION TO LANDSLIDE: A Case of Tawangmangu Sub-District, Karanganyar Regency, Indonesia

Heru Setiawan, Dr. Dyah R Hizbaron, MT., M.Sc

2013 | Tesis | S2 Geo-Informasi untuk Manajemen Bencana

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Landslides were occurred in 2007 at Tawangmangu resulting collapse of dozens houses and killing of dozens people. Analysis of people perception and analysis of the coping strategy to landslides are the two elements that are essential to determine the level of preparedness of communities to landslides occurring in the future. People coping strategy should be implemented in line with the coping strategy conducted by the government and other stakeholders. To know the preparedness of government and other stakeholders in facing landslide, it was required to analysis the risk governance frame work. Analysis of risk governance frame work was done at the district and sub-district level. Survey method with random sampling was applied to assess the level of people perception and people coping strategy related to landslide. The number of respondents was spread proportionally across five villages; Plalar, Guyon, Sodong, Salere and Ngledoksari. The respondents were interviewed using questionnaires with open and closed questions. To analyze the risk governance framework at the district and sub-district used the survey method with questionnaire and in-depth interviews. The number of respondents in the district is 24 representing 24 agencies and in the sub-district 24 respondents representing six agencies. People perception related with landslide dominated in high and moderate level. Totally, 46.2% respondents have moderate level of risk perception, 47.3% have high level and only 6.5% respondents that have low level. Age and education are two factors that influence the people‟s perception to landslide. Local people applied four types coping strategy, which are: economic, structural, social and cultural coping strategy. Totally, 51.6% respondents have high level, 33.3% have moderate level and only 15.1% respondents that have low level of coping strategy. The factors that influence the level of coping strategy are education, income and building type. Analysis of risk governance framework is limited to the three components including stakeholder involvement, risk management and risk communication. Base on the data analysis, the level of stakeholder involvement at the district scope was categorized on the moderate till high and the level of stakeholder involvement at sub-district level was categorized on the high level. Generally, the risk management of Karanganyar was categorized on the moderate level and high level and the risk management in Tawangmangu was categorized on the moderate level. Risk communication at the Karanganyar was categorized on the moderate level and in Tawangmangu was categorized on the moderate level. There are some elements must be improved on the risk governance framework, those are data management, the pattern of relationships among stakeholders, increased participation of NGOs, constructed and updated landslide risk map, enhancement of microfinance role in helping the community when disaster strikes and dissemination of information about the landslide to the local community.

Kata Kunci : Landslide perception, coping strategies, risk governance framework