SETTLEMENT ADAPTATION STRATEGIES IN RESPONDING TO THE FLOOD OF ROB STUDIES CASE: TAMBAK LOROK SETTLEMENT, SEMARANG

• Main Author: Hendra Septian, Lukman
• Format: Theses
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/56845
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Coastal communities are depressed due to environmental changes with risks that can occur at any time or for a long time. For example, tsunamis, storm waves, and rob. Indonesia is a country that is prone to prolonged coastal disasters. Large coastal cities develop with complex activities, including industry, trade, as well as settlement. Such as Semarang, Jakarta, Surabaya, and other coastal cities affected rob. Settlements that affected rob is a phenomenon that needs to be enlarged for a greater risk of loss. Various adaptation strategies have been carried out to reduce the greater impact in the Semarang area. For example, pumps, repairing drainage, and repairing houses that are unfit for habitation in flooded areas. However, the flood of rob cannot be overcome. In fact, several studies predict that flooding in the coastal areas of Semarang will increase. Although the coastal area of Semarang has the risk of flooding, the community still chooses to live and settle with various adaptation efforts. The Tambak Lorok Settlement, Semarang is a form of resilience phenomenon in living in the flood of rob disaster area in Indonesia. These settlements continue to develop despite the risk of a prolonged disaster. Many studies have been carried out on the resilience of living in disaster areas. However, most of them studied the impact, forms of house adaptation, and mapping of the flood disaster area. Thus, research on the adjustment of living accommodation which is an adaptation by adjustment, adaptation by reaction, and adaptation by withdrawal, as well as the supporting factors of living in the flood of rob area is important. This study aims to explain the phenomenon of accommodation adaptation in living in coastal areas in responses of the flood of rob in Tambak Lorok, Semarang. This research is a qualitative descriptive approach. The data collected is in the form of data related to the community's adaptive capacity, factors of adaptation strategy, forms of accommodation adaptation, as well as respondent characteristics and residential attributes in Tambak Lorok. Data collection was carried out using simple random sampling method with questionnaires to 100 respondents from the Tambak Lorok community which were divided into 5 RWs. Then the collected data is processed and interpreted by the percentage description analysis method. The homogeneity of the respondent's background and the factors of the adaptation strategy with a high value that the people of Tambak Lorok have resilience in living in iv the flood of rob area by carrying out an accommodation adaptation strategy. Equal backgrounds such as ethnicity, occupation, education, limited income require people to live in flooded areas. The choice of living in flooded land is supported by individual understanding and the ability to deal with flood of rob disasters that play a role in influencing adaptation responses. It was concluded that the adaptation strategy of the Tambak Lorok community living accommodation in responding to the flood of rob disaster was influenced by factors of occupation, adaptative capacity, family closeness, ethnicity, regulations, and disaster characteristics. Meanwhile, adaptation by adjustment are made by elevating the ground floor and increasing the height of the building structure. Adaptation by reaction is carried out by arranging goods, and most of the community does not have a relocation plan.