Development in accordance with disaster mitigation policies in urban areas sometimes involves relocation and forced eviction of people living in informal settlements. Semarang City has the same experience. In 2019 the normalization project of the Banjir Kanal Timur river as a government effort to control flooding had displaced the local communities in Tambakrejo. This paper aims to criticize the implementation of flood disaster mitigation projects that impact poor households and assess their livelihood assets after displacement. Utilizing spatial data and primary data collection using the purposive sampling method were carried out during the fieldwork. The findings highlight that, irrespective of potential opportunities to avoid local communities from flood risk and safer place to live, on the other hand, local communities experience impacts on their livelihood assets and unclear compensation for their assets. This phenomenon proves that there are still many challenges to creating safe, comfortable, and sustainable urban development mandated in Law No. 26 of 2007. In the name of national projects, this action has taken away the “right to the city”, has increased marginalized urban communities, and the emergence of urban social issues such as the affected communities’ dissatisfaction with local government authorities

The eruption of Mount Kelud in February 2014 released eruptive material that caused lava flooding from the sub-watershed. Lava floods cause land-use changes, land damage, and infrastructure damage. Ngantang Sub-district Malang Regency is the area most severely affected by the eruption of Mount Kelud. This paper aims as a preventive effort to reduce disaster risk through spatial evaluation of vulnerability due to lahar sediments and directives for infrastructure and settlement planning in volcanic areas. Using scoring and map overlay techniques for vulnerability analysis and planning directions. The findings highlight that villages along the river have a higher level of vulnerability and disaster risk and are not recommended to build and use land within a 100 meters radius of the river wall for various community activities. Another finding is the lack of strong indicators of disaster risk reduction capacity in Ngantang Sub-district. This phenomenon proves that there are still many challenges to realizing disaster risk reduction as mandated in Law No. 24 of 2007 and Regulation of the Head of BNPB No. 2 of 2012.

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