LOCAL WISDOM PRACTICE IN NATURAL DISASTER RISK REDUCTION (CASE STUDY: TRADITIONAL VILLAGE CIKONDANG, PANGALENGAN)

• Main Author: SARASATI (NIM : 25413053), WIRASTI
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/24737
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

The phenomenon of natural disasters is a matter that can not be prevented, people are required to coexist with the disaster. The presence of disasters are not preventable, but casualties can be minimized if the population had early psychological preparedness against disasters. One way to minimize the impact of disasters is to use local knowledge possessed by local people to understand the signs before the disaster there. Local wisdom is how and practices developed by a group of people who come from a deep understanding of the local environment and are formed in such a manner hereditary. Such knowledge has several important characteristics that distinguish it from other types of knowledge. Local wisdom according to Triyadi divided into two categories: tangible and intangible, (tangible and intangible), the classification of local knowledge this is the reference in view of local wisdom contained in the village of Indigenous Cikondang. Local knowledge strategy by Rajib Shaw include three things: practice and strategies can <br /> <br /> <br /> help mitigate local wisdom, combining strategy and local knowledge practices can encourage community participation, and local kearifna can provide information about the local context. Local Kearofam distributed in a non-formal, owned collectively by the <br /> <br /> <br /> community in question, developed over several generations and adaptable, and is embedded in the way of life of the community as a means of survival and of natural disasters, especially earthquakes. This study aims to look at the practice of local wisdom in Cikondang Village with see the comparation between the strategy and local wisdom practice in Cikondang Village. This research was conducted by interviewing to 10 people related offices in Bandung Regency and Pangalengan, as well as 17 people using in-depth semi-structured interviews to obtain comments, explanations and spontaneity of the respondents. The analysis was performed by analyzing qualitative data with a description of the approach. Most respondents in the study area to understand more about the culture in the region. But they do not understand about the local wisdom in the language, and they also do not understand about how local knowledge can reduce the impact of disaster risk in the region. The government also has not banya rural communities within the scope of that disaster education is still lacking in the village of Indigenous Cikondang. Things may be done by the government is to provide education about disaster that disaster risk reduction can be run with the maximum.