Farmers’ Disaster Mitigation Strategies in Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia experiences various disasters that affect human life in the economic and social aspects. Those disasters also affect the agriculture sector, and farmers have to face destroyed land and crop loss. The lives of farmers become more vulnerable. This paper presents the various disasters in Indonesia that affect agriculture, how the farmers' lives get affected, and how the farmers cope with the impacts of the disasters with various mitigation strategies. Management of disaster risk reduction is being conducted by farmers with their local wisdom such as using predicting climate change with pranata mangsa in Java, and applying pikukuh for earthquake resistant house construction in Badduy Tribe. It is supported by the relevant stakeholders that, time by time, gets more support with advanced sciences. Farmers do have their own ways to cope with disasters, but other parties' involvement is needed to make disaster risk reduction management more effective such as through education or direct and indirect aids. Farmers cannot work along for the disaster mitigation, therefore good inter stakeholder coordination is needed.

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