After the tsunami caused by the avalanche of Mount Anak Krakatau's body hit the Sunda Strait region. At the beginning of the year 2022 This area was hit by another disaster. Big earthquake with magnitude 6.6 occurs in 14 January at 16.05.41 WIB, The epicenter is located at 7.01° South Latitude and 105.26° East Longitude precisely at sea at a distance of 52 km to the southwest of the Banten Well with a depth of 10 km. Because the shock is very large, This earthquake caused damage to 48 district consisting of 166 village or village. The worst affected areas include Sumur . District, Cikeusik, Cimanggu in Pandeglang and Lebak Regencies.
Based on the latest reported data, there are as many 3.078 broken house, with details 395 heavily damaged unit, 692 moderately damaged unit, and 1.991 Slightly damaged unit. This earthquake also caused 51 school building units, 17 health facility unit (health facility), 8 government office unit, 3 business unit, and 21 places of worship are also damaged. As a result of the disaster, The Pandeglang Regent stipulates an emergency response status for 14 day, counted from date 14 until 27 January 2022.
Disaster events often raise various kinds of problems, start with economic problems, social welfare to gender-based violence. Gender shapes vulnerability and resilience to disasters in diverse and complex ways.
Indonesian Scale Foundation Research (2020) argued that development planning that does not involve gender representation creates various gender problems. The different needs of each gender make the facilities built also have to be adapted to reduce vulnerability. Women can become one of the potentials in disaster risk reduction if their potential is recognized and involved in decision making and also the implementation of disaster management programs.
The participatory and bottom-up approach led by the affected communities holds great promise that the post-disaster recovery process will be better able to meet their needs. Empowering women in a post-disaster context is necessary considering that disasters expose and exacerbate existing social exclusion in society.
"Therefore, The Scale Indonesia Foundation initiated the Community-Based Disaster Risk Management Development program as a way to increase the capacity of residents in the most at-risk areas to be able to independently manage disaster risks in their area.” said Lien Sururoh as the program coordinator.
This program has gone through its first phase by conducting a vulnerability assessment of the capacity to deal with disasters in four villages, including Ujung Jaya Village, Tamanjaya Village and Kertamukti Village in Sumur District, and Ciburial Village in Cimanggu District, Pandeglang, Banten in the period July to August 2022.
The next series of activities is the preparation and formation of village-based contingency plans. In this activity, we involve active community participation in order to build community resilience in accordance with the social conditions of the people in the area. (LS)
