The Effectiveness of Strategy Adaptations on Tidal Flood in The Coastal Areas of Sayung, Demak, Central Java, Indonesia

Abstract

Sayung is one of sub-district of Demak Regency which located in the northside of the coastal area. For the last few decades, the coastal area has become a tidal flood cause of climate change, and human activities that have had an impact on social, economic and environmental aspects. The various adaptation efforts had been done to confronting the tidal flood phenomena. The purpose of this study to identify the effectivity of adaptation’s strategy which related to the tidal flood phenomena. The required data includes the adaptation’s activities, the financial adaptation’s activities, the socio-cultural adaptation’s activities that have obtained more than 100 household samples. Those samples have distributed in the four villages namely as Sriwulan, Bedono, Timbulsloko and Surodadi villages in the northside of Sayung sub-district coastal area. The data are obtained by scoring method through the questionnaires. This study can be provided as the effectivity level description of the completed adaptation efforts to decreasing the tidal flood risks or impacts. So that, the results of the efforts were landfill, floor elevations, household-furniture raising, highly effective. But, Sriwulan local people argued that the household-furniture raising was ineffectively being the solution, if it cannot be balanced with the others adaptations for solving the tidal flood phenomena.