Community adaptive capacity using social media at the aftermath of tropical cyclone cempaka, indonesia

Abstract

Tropical Cyclone Cempaka is one of the tropical cyclones hit the southern Coast of Java Island, Indonesia. The occurrence triggered flood and landslide which impacted to disrupted community livelihood. There were damages upon paddy fields, settlements, and many other public facilities such as roads and bridges at the aftermath of Tropical Cyclone Cempaka. This research aims to evaluate how community adaptive capacity towards Tropical Cyclone using social media. The main idea to use social media is to expand response coverage towards Tropical Cyclone. The community is understood not only as person or accumulative people who live in specified administrative unit, it could also those who had interest towards particular administrative unit. The research method employed spatial temporal approach to identify distribution of Twitter data responded towards the event. The research intends to collect data with series of relevant hashtags, and to observe data into several categories. The preliminary research reveals that there are significant changes in most frequent keywords during the disaster event. The most frequent tweet during emergency situation is the general information about the events. Afterwards, tweets characteristics shifts during rehab-recons phase into words relevant to raise supports and spirits. The spatial distribution of tweets originated from cities, and megacities, such as Jakarta, Surabaya and many others. Relevant to the idea, community adaptive capacity towards Tropical Cyclone Cempaka was not merely conducted by local community, it also involved variedly to the national to regional community using social media.