Capacity Building and Community Preparedness Towards Landslide Disaster in Pagerharjo Village, Kulon Progo Regency of Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Abstract

In developing countries, promoting disaster knowledge for disaster mitigation and disaster risk reduction is at best when initiated from a local scale. The bottom-up approach in the landslide disaster management program in Indonesia could catch common awareness of the community for their living neighbourhood. Despite diverse characteristics of the communities, community-based mitigation may effective and often achieving capacity building and community preparedness towards disasters. Landslide disaster mitigation activities have been conducted in Pagerharjo Village, Samigaluh District, Kulon Progo Regency of Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia from April to October 2019. The activities are strongly involved in community participation in risk assessment, disseminating knowledge, establishing a task force team for disaster preparedness and emergency response, monitoring potential landslide disasters, as well as creating evacuation maps and standard operating procedures for evacuation. The main goals of these mitigation activities are well achieved: (1) locations of potential landslides in the village are identified; (2) capacity and preparedness of the community in Pagerharjo Village towards landslide disaster are successfully built through creating a simple risk and evacuation route map; (3) community participation in monitoring of slope mass movement is increased; (4) disaster mitigation knowledge to the community is well promoted, and (5) awareness of the importance of reforestation and slope protection of the area in Pagerharjo Village has become highly concerned.KeywordsLandslideCommunity participationPreparedness and response teamEvacuation route mapYogyakarta