The day started with a Bruno Mars song “that’s what I like” and a hot coffee from the hotel around 6:00 am. A French toast and again coffee in the hotel Restaurant at 8:30 am while waiting for the other participants to arrive. Instructions about the day’s itinerary and changes in team composition was also discussed. I was assigned to Team 6 from the previous team 4, having Romulo of Davao DRRM Office, Philippines, Cresency Umely Anak Udin of Universiti Putra Malaysia and Fazila Beknakzarova of Tsukuba University, Japan from Tajikistan. The team already discussed tasking the night before the activity. Tasking was made by Romulo of the Philippines, I will do the questions for the Key Informat Interview, Cresency of Malaysia is our tour guide and interpreter and Fazila of Tajikistan will be the narrator for the video.
The team left Cakra Kusuma Hotel around 9:00 am and traveled to Batik Winotosastro in Jalan, Tirtodipuran, Yogyakarta. The Batik makers allowed us to roam around the facility then called our attention for the orientation and gave us materials to make our own masterpiece of batik handkerchief. I made mine blue with my name and event written on it “Eco- DRR 2017 Maple” awkwardly in the middle.
After the artistic and cultural engagement with Indonesian Heritage and art which is “Batik- Making”. I browsed a little history of the place, Google said, Yogyakarta also Jogja or Jogjakarta formerly Djokjakarta/Djocjakarta or Djokja is a city in the island of Java in Indonesia. It is renowned as a centre of education (Kota Pelajar), classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry and puppet shows. The city is named after the Indian City of Ayodhya from the Ramayana epic. Yogya means suitable, fit,proper and karta, means prosperous, flourishing (a city that is fit to prosper). That’s why Jogja is visited and haven for interns and practitioners not only in DRR but art and culture as well.
The team head for lunch with rupia 50,000.00 each person,that is Php 200.00 in the Philippines. I gave myself a big lunch of Porkchop and mashed potato, enough for me to survive the days challenge, Amazing Race UGM version. The budget is for individual lunch and transportation going to the identified site for assessment. The area visited is Jalan Tentara Zeni Pelajar number 47. We arrived after 30 minutes of travel, it was a typical ambiance of a dumpsite. Foul smell, unmanaged environment and children playing everywhere. We requested one male elderly, one family, one mother with child and a female elderly who works as a garbage handler in charge in segregating solid waste.
It was a mixture of emotions today; having Jogja culture in the morning and an up close and personal experience of one of their problems in their society. Improper Human and Solid waste management and internally displaced Person (IDP). This two major concern can also lead to many other risk and hazards, such as health related issues of skin diseases, cough and colds and vector borne diseases; clogging of waterways that can also lead to waterborne diseases and urban flooding; can also lead to fire because their houses are made of light-weight materials.
Whatever the reason why they migrated to the area and regardless of differences in cultural and religious belief it is their right to have a defined well-being and secured income-generation livelihood that will in turn make them a productive member of Jogjakarta; People’s well- being in positions of health (including mental health) and nutrition, is vital to their resilience, especially in the case of disasters that result in reduced food intake and health risks, if people are not eating properly and not rested enough it will result to illnesses and poor mental health if this occur they will not perform properly as a citizen of Jogjakarta; Self-protection is linked to having a satisfactory livelihood, so as to afford the protection of home and assets. The capacity to build a house that will withstand local hazards (e.g., earthquakes, fire and tsunami) depends in part on satisfactory income, although cultural and behavioral factors can also affect the priority given to protection from infrequent hazards. Assistance from government or other entity is often needed in terms of necessary skills and techniques, and to encourage compliance with protective measures; Social protection should generally be provided by local institutions and involves precautions that people cannot manage on their own, such as fire protection, or ensuring compliance with building codes and lastly Governance mechanism reflects the way in which power activates to determine how resources and incomes are allocated and whether a civil society exists and is active.
The linkages between these mechanisms are important. For example, the strong point of a household’s livelihood determines the well-being of the family – including their food status, health and confidence. This is highly appropriate to their capacity to cope with and rebound from a disaster: if well-fed and healthy, they are less likely to succumb to disease. The type of livelihood is crucial, too: if land is washed away in a flood, or if they have unclean and managed solid waste facility most likely they will eventually have skin and lung diseases, or if they have health insurance provided by the government they can cope up easily.
It is, therefore, significant to vulnerability in two important means. Firstly, the type of governance in a country has intense influence on people’s profits and on the access that various groups of people have to resources and assets for their livelihoods. Secondly, the quality of governance will affect the amount and quality of social protection: flood preparedness, warning systems for tropical cyclones, and tsunami, building codes for earthquake protection, and adaptive healthy environment for health related issues.