Community Resilience: Learning from Mt Merapi Eruption 2010

AbstractThe concept of community resilience is one of popular approaches in disaster risk reduction. Eruptions of Mt Merapi in 2010 raised death toll reaching 377 people, resulting in loss of material at least Rp 3.56 T and the largest eruption in the first period of the last century. This study analyzes the community resilience in a high hazard area. The research question is how is community resilience of Kaliadem, Jambu and Petung post-Merapi eruption 2010. This study used Pasteur Framework to analyze the data. Based on research findings, the community have 13 of the 16 indicators of resilience. As the result, community from Kaliadem, Jambu and Petung villages have resilience to face the hazard of post-eruption of Mt Merapi 2010