Literacy Breakthrough Towards Indonesian Disaster Mitigation

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201021.037How to use a DOI?

Keywords

english literacy, disaster mitigation, cross culture communication

Abstract

Indonesia is in one of the world’s most natural disaster-prone areas and is at risk to multiple hazard. The National Disaster Management Agency or Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB) records that the number of natural disasters during 2019 is 3,271 events excluding human-caused and other incidents of mass trauma. Foreigners from various countries have been offering partnership in volunteering for disaster recovery, risk reduction, preparedness, and financial activities. In 2004, deathly Tsunami struck Indonesia and more than 4000 foreign volunteers participated for the disaster recovery. Despite growing interest in international volunteerism, Indonesian volunteers face a challenge in language and culture differences. A study conducted by Talarski (2014) investigated cross cultural immersion in Tanzania and Zambia found that foreign volunteers have greater understanding of the local culture because the local volunteers welcomed them as the part of their community. It shows that well preparedness of the local brought impacts to culture immersion. Indonesian volunteers should be ready in terms of partnership to foreign nations especially in communication and culture immersion. To overcome the problems, English and cross culture literacy are essential to put into practical to fill the gap due to language and culture differences. Thus, this paper is intended to offer literacy as a breakthrough toward disaster mitigation during the actions. Therefore, English and cross culture literacy are needed to understand and to practice before the voluntary mission.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Isti Purwaningtyas
AU  - Esti Junining
AU  - Didik Hartono
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/22
TI  - Literacy Breakthrough Towards Indonesian Disaster Mitigation
BT  - Proceedings of the Brawijaya International Conference on Multidisciplinary Sciences and Technology (BICMST 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 159
EP  - 163
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201021.037
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201021.037
ID  - Purwaningtyas2020
ER  -