Resilience is more capable of dealing with hydro-meteorological disasters compared to the risk. Resilience is a positive concept that puts forward adaptation efforts so that more in line with sustainable development goals. This study aims to introduce the resilience concept in dealing with hydro-meteorological disasters and apply it at the provincial level in Indonesia. The methods used are: 1) measuring the climate risk index (CRI), 2) measuring the adaptation capacity index (ACI), and 3) classifying the provinces based on CRI and ACI. Grouping CRI and ACI are used to define provinces which have the potential to bounce back better (low CRI - high ACI), bounce back (high CRI – high ACI), recover but worse than before (low CRI -low ACI), and collapse (high CRI – low ACI). The study results indicate that throughout 2017 there are 10 provinces that South Sumatra, Central Java, and West Nusa Tenggara. In contrast, 3 provinces with the most have the potential to bounce back better, 7 provinces bounce back, 7 provinces recover but worse than before, and 10 provinces collapse. In general, 3 provinces with the lowest resilience are resilient levels are Riau, Bangka Belitung, and Riau Islands.

Disaster can not be avoided, but the risk of disasters is able to be diminished through mitigation. Mitigation in the form of discussion and communication becoming an instrument of society in facing the matters of life. This study describes the role of government in preventing to face the hazard potentials and disaster mitigations, such as natural hazards, disasters and conflicts through the effective communication. This study applied a descriptive qualitative approach through forum discussion group method and literature study. The informants in this study are the stakeholders of government organizations those are the experts of disasters, such as BNPB, BMKG, KLH and the academics. The theories in this study are the theory of communication and disaster mitigation focusing on the effective communication for enhancing the disaster risk reduction related to Indonesia capital city transference plans in Kalimantan. The result of this study shows that the role of disaster communication can help the government giving and socializing the information to the society in order to support the successful of disaster risk reductions.

A massive effort to improve community resilience against disasters has been made by the Indonesian government. President Joko Widodo further emphasized this effort by ordering all governmental institutions and local governments to intensify disaster education for all the communities across Indonesia. As a contribution to this effort, Indonesia Defense University conducted a short training on basic disaster management for students, lecturers, and staffs. To evaluate the results of such training, a before-and-after study is used. The aim of this study is to examine if short training could improve participants’ knowledge in disaster management on a basic level. A pretest-posttest design was used to examine 105 participants’ knowledge before and after a five-day intervention consisting of eight basic disaster management courses regulated by the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB). The grading system is used to understand how much the improvement of each participant, with the possibility of failing if not meeting the score threshold. This study showed that most of the participants’ knowledge on basic disaster management have improved with varying results: 60 percent of participants passed with “excellent” mark, 22 percent passed with “very good” mark, 12 percent passed with “good” mark, and the remaining eight percent failed to pass. This study provides an opportunity for humanitarian actors to use such training in order to improve knowledge in basic disaster management as a means of disaster education. However, long-term evaluation for each participant is required to examine the impact of this training on disaster resilience on community scale.

Penelitian berjudul “Kesiapsiagaan Pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes dalam Menghadapi Bencana Banjir dimasa Pandemi Covid-19”. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis sejauhmana kesiapsiagaan pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes dalam menghadapi bencana banjir dimasa pandemi covid-19. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu deskriptif kualitatif. Dalam pengumpulan data meggunakan wawancara, pengamatan/observasi, dan dokumentasi. Sementara dalam melakukan analisis menggunakan teknik analisis model Miles, Huberman dan Saldana. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa 1). Pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes memiliki pengetahuan yang baik terhadap ancaman bencana banjir dan covid-19; 2). Pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes belum memiliki rencana kontijensi bencana banjir yang dihadapkan pada kondisi pandemi; 3). Sistem peringatan dini ancaman bencana banjir masih bersifat konvensional; 4). Pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes belum pernah melakukan simulasi banjir dimasa pandemi covid-19 5). Pemerintah Kabupaten Brebes telah melakukan kerjasama dengan masyarakat dalam kesiapsiagaan bencana banjir. Adapun rekomendasi dari penulis yaitu 1). Merumuskan regulasi untuk penanggulangan bencana dimasa pandemi; 2). Menyiapkan lokasi tempat pengungsian yang memenuhi protkol kesehatan; 3). Memrumuskan rencana kontigensi ancaman bencana banjir dimasa pandemi; 4) Melatih relawan dala penanganan korban suspect covid-19; 5). Meningkatkan koordinasi dan kerjasama dalam hubungan sipil-militer.

COVID-19 gives a significant impact on female workers. Their rights that have been marginalized have been increasingly degraded during the PSBB (large-scale social restrictions). It becomes a double impact, socially or economically, because female workers as housewives are forced to bear the burden of families, and at the same time they have to be a mother to teach their children because of school-from-home programme. Some of them experience a more severe impact that the husband who loses his job, which means that the wife takes over the burden of the whole family. However, society (especially women) has social capital that is able to help them economically and psychologically in continuing their activities during pandemic. Using qualitative methods and social capital theory, we find that the existence of social gatherings of women can support their economy, or simply sharing with their friends has a direct impact on women’s mental health.