Abstract
Generally, people assume that Javanese Folklor is commonly dominated by myths. In fact, some of Javanese Folklor contains numerous knowledge of local wisdom on disaster mitigation. Nowadays, disaster mitigation is proceeded only based on scientific knowledge and technology. Meanwhile, there are some cultural knowledges on disaster mitigation which are mostly forgotten and scarcely applied. People will assume that the knowledge is just a myth and should be ignored. Therefore, this study reveals the Javanese traditional knowledge for disaster mitigation through identification of folklores. Using anthropological history approach, this study reveals hidden values in every occasion from Javanese folklores such as the story ofTimun Mas, Rawa Pening, andNyi Roro Kidul. Timun Masprovides an information regarding to reclamation of ex-mining land for mud volcano disaster, Rawa Pening gives a lesson on how to keep lake area clean to prevent from flooding, while Nyi Roro kidul teaches us to developing mangrove forest from tsunami. Thus, this study offers values about traditional knowledge on disaster mitigation that can be contextualized in the present-day effort as survival strategy in a disaster.
Highlights
The territory of Indonesia is situated at the meeting point of 3 continental plates of Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, and Pacific Plate, making it located in the “Ring of Fire”, which is an area where natural disasters such as volcano eruption, earthquake, tsunami, flood, and landslide often occur [1]
The The Javanese people of folktales related to natural disaster mitigation include Timun Mas, Rawa Pening, and Nyi Roro Kidul
Timun Mas is related to the phenomena of the “mud volcano” disaster, Rawa Pening contains information of flood around Lake Rawa Pening, and Nyi Roro Kidul is related to the old catastrophe of tsunami occurring about 400 years ago
Summary
The territory of Indonesia is situated at the meeting point of 3 continental plates of Eurasian Plate, Indo-Australian Plate, and Pacific Plate, making it located in the “Ring of Fire”, which is an area where natural disasters such as volcano eruption, earthquake, tsunami, flood, and landslide often occur [1]. Based on the facts revealed, natural disasters usually occur in Indonesia [2]. Indonesia has had several natural disasters which are classified into catastrophes, such as the tsunami in Aceh in 2004, the earthquake in the south of Java in 2006, Mount Merope eruption in 2010 at the same time as the tsunami in Mentawai, earthquake in Lombok, and earthquake followed by a tsunami in Paul, Sigil and Dongola. The relationship between nature-tradition and humans is disconnected [4], metaphysics and phenomenology become less known, in which the modern society is getting away from nature [4]
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