VALUE RATIONALITY OF PEOPLE LIVING ON THE SLOPE OF MERAPI IN YOGYAKARTA

Napsiah Napsiah,Oekan Soekotjo Abdoellah,Budhi Gunawan,Munandar Sulaeman

doi:10.18784/analisa.v1i1.201

Abstract

<p><em>This study aims to desribe rationality of the people who live in eruption-prone areas of Mount Merapi and who refused to be relocated. Qualitative research is for this purpose. Informants were selected by snowball sampling technique. The location of research is in the Pangukrejo village which is a village in the southern slopes of Merapi. The results show that people Merapi as place of origin where they obtain senses of comfort,and safety. Merapi is also place where they acquire and preserve community value system. Merapi is a symbol of their dignity that must be maintained. In this relation eruption is interpreted as destiny eruption interpreted as destiny of God that can not be circumvented. At that time, their living conditions were on the bottom and could be overcome by means of mutual cooperation to return to normal condition. </em>The value rationality motivate them to resettle in their homes after the great eruption of Merapi.</p>

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FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDSThe advancement of information and technology in this era has encouraged the editorial boards of Analisa Journal of Social Science and Religion to change some aspects of the journal for the better
This study is aimed at identifying the value rationality of people who returned to their native places on the slopes of Merapi, which were categorized as the Disaster Prone Area III by the government after the huge eruption of Merapi which according to the Research and Technology Development
Pangukrejo people belong to Javanese ethnic group who live at Pangukrejo Hamlet located on the southern slope at a distance of 6 km from the peak of Mount Merapi

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FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARDSThe advancement of information and technology in this era has encouraged the editorial boards of Analisa Journal of Social Science and Religion to change some aspects of the journal for the better. Especially settlement, is an important thing which requires attention (Bookshire et al, 1985) It is because people who live in disaster-prone areas have a high degree of vulnerability (Ozdemir, 2000). The rationality of governments perceives that disaster, using scientific perspective on disaster, is a danger so that all people living in disaster-prone areas should be relocated. Using the objectivity perspective, people perceive disaster as something dangerous, but an attempt to leave their residence after the disaster is not something they have to do Such difference in rationality exists, according to Kholiq and Arum (2011), is caused by the fact that the government does not take the value system of people who live in disaster-prone areas into consideration. In line with that views, Carter (1991:27) suggests that the difference of rationality results in the exclusion of local residents in the disaster management ranging from pre-disaster phase, when the disaster is happening, to the rehabilitation phase

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