Juxtaposing the Culture of Flood Disaster in Java Estuarine: Is It Political Commodification or Culture Naturalization?

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.92How to use a DOI?

Keywords

culture of public resiliency; risk naturalization; political image; flood disaster commodification; culture of disaster challenge

Abstract

Since two decades, the two estuarine of Java, Ciliwung River and Bengawan Solo Estuarine have been appeared as an ambiguity meaning of natural resource. On the first hand they mean as source of life that sustain the abundant living of the village. On the other hand, when the torrential rain occurs then it would be potential to trigger many other severe disasters. Ciliwung River streams to Jakarta while Bengawan Solo estuarine flows to many regions from Central Java to East Java. This article aims to contrasting how the local governments differently endeavor the flood risk as political commodification or cultural naturalization. The research has been conducted using discourse analysis by scrutinizing two different videos issued by the Public Relations of district government which one depicts the successful district government in stimulating people’s resiliency of river bank. On a contrary, the video which represents the newly-elected governor of Jakarta may lead to an extravaganza challenge by defeating the flood in order to win public trust. The findings indicate the contrast culture of public resiliency and culture of political image construction. Nevertheless, the discourse about flood disaster turns to be a political contestation to raise many critics from the public rather than constructing resiliency. Hence, this contrast culture of risk and disaster may result in different political and cultural framework to endeavor best effort of reducing risk disaster in many regions and cities in Indonesia.

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© 2018, 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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AU  - Nevrettia Christantyawati
AU  - Tony Sukasah
AU  - Yenny Yenny
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Juxtaposing the Culture of Flood Disaster in Java Estuarine: Is It Political Commodification or Culture Naturalization?
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 420
EP  - 422
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.92
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