Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Public Management (ICPM 2016)

Communication Strategies of DFTW (Domes for The World) in Post-Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation in Yogyakarta, Indonesia

Authors
Nadia Farabi, Hermini Susiatiningsih
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Nadia Farabi
Available Online July 2016.
DOI
10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36How to use a DOI?
Keywords
NGO; communication; disaster response
Abstract

This paper explains how DFTW, a United States-based NGO, organized to move Sengir Village residents to Nglepen Baru, after the 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake. Reconstruction and rehabilitation were needed in order to avoid citizens from disaster that devastated their homes and livelihoods. DFTW gave humanitarian aid in the form of dome-shaped houses; semicircle building that proven to be disaster-resilient. However, the aid hardly received warm welcome from the locals, because the house in Java are generally rectangular or square. DFTW success in building dome houses could not be separated from its ability to communicate with the local governments, local organizations, as well as local communities, in order to improve living conditions of the affected communities. The great loss and damage of housing due to the earthquake made all elements agree that reconstruction of houses should prioritize resilience against earthquakes. Thus, in the future, the housing damage could be minimized.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Public Management (ICPM 2016)
Series
Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research
Publication Date
July 2016
ISBN
10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36
ISSN
2352-5428
DOI
10.2991/icpm-16.2016.36How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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