Author(s): Mukhsan Putra Hatta; Akira Tai; A. Bau Emil Salim; Akihoro Hashimoto; Hideo Oshikawa; Toshimitsu Komatsu
Linked Author(s): Akira Tai, Hideo Oshikawa
Keywords: Flood; Disaster; Walennae Watershed; Evacuation Activity
Abstract: In recently years, flood disaster and landslides by extreme weather are commonly in entire of the world, has been hapened seriously damaged. Based on IPCC 4th report, the increasing of disaster and global warming was effecting by extreme weather. In Japan, the degress of population in rural areas and capital cities have been happened because global warming disaster. In prosperous country, this research has been implemented in Indonesia. Beside that, Indonesia with fully attention commited to conduct of effective steps for preventing of flooding disaster. In Japan, there are two devices are used to prevented of flood namely hardware and software. In prosperous country, over handling by hardware gave problem than over handling by software with developing alertness communities and mutually in case natural disaster. Therefore, our study tried to compare the differences in characteristics of rainfall and flooding in different climate zones by conducting surveys and interviews. More details, comparing the results of a survey among the events the same question in a hard rain in Amami Oshima Japan 2010 (Tai. et al, 2010) with the people who live in Walennae watershed district. Wajo, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Walennae watershed is proned to floods in 2002,2006,2010,2011 floods and caused seriously damaged. In this study extensive flood damage Walennae Watershed obtained from the interviews were divided into 3 regions and focused on the damage, flood behavior and community preparedness. From this study produced two major things namely firstly, In the flood prone areas in the watershed Walennae government attention is still lacking, the existing mutual aid between communities and secondly, In flood-prone areas are people doing everyday activities.
Year: 2014