Communication Strategies of DFTW (Domes for The World) in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36How to use a DOI?

Keywords

NGO; communication; disaster response

Abstract

This paper explains how DFTW, a United States-based NGO, organized to move Sengir Village residents to Nglepen Baru, after the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake. Reconstruction and rehabilitation were needed in order to avoid citizens from disaster that devastated their homes and livelihoods. DFTW gave humanitarian aid in the form of dome-shaped houses; semicircle building that proven to be disaster-resilient. However, the aid hardly received warm welcome from the locals, because the house in Java are generally rectangular or square. DFTW success in building dome houses could not be separated from its ability to communicate with the local governments, local organizations, as well as local communities, in order to improve living conditions of the affected communities. The great loss and damage of housing due to the earthquake made all elements agree that reconstruction of houses should prioritize resilience against earthquakes. Thus, in the future, the housing damage could be minimized.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nadia Farabi
AU  - Hermini Susiatiningsih
PY  - 2016/07
DA  - 2016/07
TI  - Communication Strategies of DFTW (Domes for The World) in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Public Management (ICPM 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 126
EP  - 128
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36
DO  - 10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36
ID  - Farabi2016/07
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