Abstract:
The community has a strategy facing floods. This research aims to analyze (1) the community's
mitigation, (2) the community's action during the flood, (3) the community's post-flood action, (4) the
community’s effort to avoid flood’s effect. This research’s approach is explanatory-sequential design. Data
collection used questionnaires, in-depth interviews, observations, literature studies. Quantitative data
analysis used descriptive statistics and qualitative data analysis used a 3-step technique. The results are
(1) community mitigation: cleaning the lake and the river from waste, preparing the boat, preparing the
empty land for the animal, and making higher the house. (2) community actions during flooding: picking
up things to the place under the roof, building the higher place into the home, building the bamboo bridge,
saving the vehicle in other families, saving the animal in the safety place (3) actions after flooding: cleaning
mud post-flood, improving the broken part of the home, putting back things post-flood, broken the bamboo
bridge. (4) efforts to avoid impact of flooding, having housing provided by the government and utilizing
bridges. The conclusion that all community actions to deal with floods are collectivity for the community.
