Abstract
The research concerned here was to know the economic rationality of residents who dwelled again in their former village after the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010 and refused to be relocated by the government. A combined research method, namely, a combination between a qualitative method and a quantitative one, was used to uncover the rationality. The qualitative part of the research was conducted first by deciding informants considered knowledgeable about the matter under research. Then the informants were interviewed in turns decided via snowball sampling. Some secondary data were used to support the qualitative research. As for the quantitative part of the research, it was conducted afterwards by turning members of the households in the village into respondents. The finding of the research is as follows. The residents perceive the disaster not only as a dangerous natural phenomenon but also as an economic blessing because tourists’ visits to the areas suffering from the impact of the disaster enable residents to have activities that have economic value. That economic rationality was what motivated them to return to their village though its condition is categorized by the government as unfit for dwelling.
Highlights
Government efforts to relocate residents living in disaster-prone areas frequently meet with refusal
Up to 75 % of residents say that the tourism economic activity could serve as the source of the capital needed to finance the rebuilding of their old businesses such as tending cows and the rebuilding of the tourists’ cottage business which has become totally paralyzed because of that eruption of Mount Merapi occurring in 2010
The disaster handling effort planned by the government in relation with the disaster in the form of the terrible eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010, in the matter of relocation in particular, received a refusal from a certain group of residents who, prior to the occurrence of the disaster, had long lived in the areas around Mount Merapi
Summary
Government efforts to relocate residents living in disaster-prone areas frequently meet with refusal. The difference in rationality in perceiving a disaster causes the government to make a one-sided decision in the matter of relocation so that frequently the relocation effort is refused by residents by returning to their village to live there again. Of all the research on the disaster phenomenon related to the eruption of Mount Merapi, none had previously studied in particular issues concerning the economic rationality of residents returning to live again in their villages after the occurrence of the disaster that had devastated their villages. The research concerned here was to know the economic rationality of those residents in returning to their village, which has been devastated as a result of the Merapi eruption that has been classified as its greatest eruption so that the life resources of the residents have been severely damaged and the area concerned has been declared by the government as an area which is forbidden to be reinhabited
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