The Analysis of Landslide Vulnerability in Settlement of Citizenship Association VI, Sukorejo Village, Semarang

Abstract

One of the disasters that must be noticed in mountains and hills is landslide. This is especially if the area is used as settlement. Semarang as metropolitan city with various topography is not separated from the use of its hilly area into residential areas. One of them is in Gunungpati District. However, this utilization of land can cause this area prone to landslide. Sukorejo Village, especially in Citizenship Association (CA) VI, is the landslide prone areas in Gunungpati District, Semarang. Almost every year, Citizenship Association (CA) VI of Sukorejo Village experiences landslide causing damage to infrastructures. Therefore it is needed to analyse the landslide vulnerability in Citizenship Association (CA) VI of Sukorejo Village. Thus, the vulnerability of the area is evaluated as disaster mitigation in accordance with physical, social, economic and institutional criteria. This study utilized quantitative method by scoring analysis to measure the level of landslide vulnerability. The vulnerabilities which were analysed were physical, social, economic, and institutional. The results of this study indicate that settlement in Citizenship Association (CA) VI of Sukorejo Village has high physical vulnerability, moderate to high social vulnerability, moderate economic vulnerability and low institutional vulnerability to disaster.