For those of you who think that the local ones are not cool, try to stop thinking that right away. There are so many who come from local but can go worldwide, even looking for and being an inspiration. This is very similar to the experience of disasterchannel.co and Yayasan Skala Indonesia who continue to explore and document local knowledge about disasters and can go international..
The story begins with research on local knowledge. Several abstracts about our local knowledge research were selected to be presented at an international symposium called REGARD. REGARD is an acronym for Rebuilding After Displacement. This activity aims to develop competence in rebuilding communities after disasters and mass displacement due to conflict from the perspective of the built environment. To identify community needs after disaster and conflict due to mass displacement from the perspective of the built environment. To investigate the role of the built environment in enhancing social cohesion between host communities and refugees. To explore knowledge, skills and competencies needed by built environment professionals to meet the needs of host communities and refugees. To develop, test, and implementing a series of innovative training courses to meet the needs of communities and refugees.
In this international symposium, Sururoh Link, disasterchannel.co content creator and researcher at Yayasan Skala Indonesia presented two research results entitled "Collective Memory and Local Knowledge About Disaster In Central Sulawesi" and "Disaster Risk Reduction With Gender Perspective In Central Sulawesi" on Monday, 13/12/2021. While Trinirmala Ningrum, The Director of the Skala Indonesia Foundation presented the results of his research entitled "Collective Memory and Local Knowledge About Disaster In Banten" on Tuesday, 14/12/2021. Through this event, local knowledge is heard to the world's public.
Picture 1. Lien Sururoh is presenting the results of research on local knowledge in Central Sulawesi
In his display, Lien stated that "Some of the local wisdom of the community about the area is only a historical story". Local wisdom has not been considered to have added value and its effectiveness in disaster risk reduction has not been recognized. Existing local wisdom has not been popularized and has not become the consumption of most people”.
Picture 2, Trinirmala Ningrum is presenting the results of his research on local knowledge in Banten
Meanwhile Trinirnala or who is often called Rini stated that "There needs to be promotion through various mass media to revive folklore and teach its meaning so that it can be easily understood by the living and future generations.".
"It needs to be developed so that this local wisdom can become a local community-based disaster risk reduction strategy," added Rini.
Through this international symposium, they both hope that they will be recognized and become part of the disaster risk reduction strategy in Indonesia.. (LS)
