SAVE THE COMMUNITY FROM THE FLOOD HAZARD: THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMMUNITIES SURROUNDING THE LAKE

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.