Scale Indonesia together with Disasterchannel.co have celebrated the day International Women’s Day in the form of organizing a writing competition held throughout the end of March. In this competition, we carry the theme "The Story of a Great Woman Facing Disaster". The great stories you have about women in the face of disasters must be many who are still buried alone. The experience of sharing stories through writing about disasters can be one way to perpetuate the collective memory of the community in dealing with disasters. this is a form of knowledge management of the assets owned by the contestants in dealing with disasters.
Through this competition, disasterchannel.co managed to collect dozens of articles from all over Indonesia. To strengthen the existing network, then disasterchannel.co held a training to increase the community's capacity to write about their experiences in dealing with disasters that was held on 25 July 2022 then. It aims to strengthen knowledge management in disaster risk reduction through citizen journalism.
In this event, 15 the best participants in the contest and the disasterchannel.co citizen journalism network were invited to attend the event in person at Hotel Santika TMII to receive writing training. The first material was delivered by Prasidono Listiaji, he invites everyone to start writing. The man who is often called Inod explained that in this country what is often promoted in language literacy is reading, even though writing is also a part of literacy.
Being citizen journalism requires us to write. There are several stages that must be passed before writing, that is: ensure writing requirements, collect materials, interviews and reporting as well as making outline.
Inod asserts that the first time we write, our writing will be seen as bad by others. If we want to grow, then keep on writing and automatically our abilities will continue to grow. Becoming a writer for citizen journalism can be started by creating an outline using 5W+1H questions (what, when, where, who, why + how).
Final, Inod gives tips to be safe while writing. The first thing you need to do is choose angle and loyal to angle the. Second, write with enhanced spelling. Third, try to bring out detailed but concise data by forming tables or infographics. Fourth, avoid using clauses because they often lead us astray. Fifth, Be careful using adjectives, because adjectives will give rise to many interpretations.
The discussion was so warm between the participants and the presenters. There are so many exchanges of experience and knowledge regarding the results of writing and writing practice. In the end, everyone agreed that writing about disasters is very important to improve disaster literacy, especially in disaster-prone countries like Indonesia. (LS)
