Twenty years of community-based disaster risk reduction experience from a dryland village in Indonesia

Academics and practitioners often argue indirectly that all the roads to community resilience should be paved with community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach. Communitybased approach to resilience building has been a discursive material that appeals many disaster management players inc...

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Published in:Jamba 2018, Vol.10 (1), p.1-10
Main Authors: Boli, Yos, Lassa, Jonatan A., Leonis, Herman, Ofong, Alex, Fanggidae, Silvia, Nakmofa, Yulius
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
climate adaptation
Communities
Community
community adaptation
community based disaster risk reduction
Disaster management
Disaster risk
Disasters
drought management
Education
Emergency communications systems
Emergency preparedness
flood risk
Floods
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
Original Research
Political aspects
Public health
Qualitative analysis
Reduction
Resilience
Risk
risk governance
Risk reduction
Rites, ceremonies and celebrations
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
West Timor farmers
Work experience
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Summary:Academics and practitioners often argue indirectly that all the roads to community resilience should be paved with community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach. Communitybased approach to resilience building has been a discursive material that appeals many disaster management players including international donors, non-governmental organisations and highlevel government officials as well as politicians. Some researchers argue that CBDRR is the foundation of disaster risk governance. Unfortunately, globally, there is lack of studies on longterm and real-world experience of CBDRR. This article addresses this research gap by providing insights of CBDRR activities from a village in eastern Indonesia based on long-term studies. The adoption of CBDRR approach in Indonesia took place in the late 1990s and the authors have been part of the early adopters of the framework. Using longitudinal participant observations, this research combined qualitative and quantitative data collected during 1998–2017. It shows the rise and fall of a community responding to disaster risks over time. The article further highlights stories of frustrations and celebrations that surround CBDRR activities implemented by one local community in a dryland village in eastern Indonesia.
ISSN:1996-1421
2072-845X
1996-1421
DOI:10.4102/jamba.v10i1.502