Penguatan Literasi Mitigasi Bencana Angin Puting Beliung untuk Peningkatan Kapasitas Masyarakat Desa Munggur, Kabupaten Boyolali, Jawa Tengah

Abstract

Boyolali Regency is one of the most suffer area to tornado (puting beliung in Bahasa Indonesia). It annually occured before the rainy season arrives and has resulted in material losses and injurie. One of the villages in Boyolali which is often hit by a tornado is Village of Munggur. Therefore, the purpose of this activity is increasing to the capacity of community of Munggur Village, Boyolali Regency by strengthening to literacy of tornado mitigation. The effort was carried out through education by conducting focus group discussion (FGD). The FGD was attended by 50 residents, head of Munggur Village, village officials and community leaders. The FGD begins with the presentation of material that contains scientific knowledge, followed by a question and answer session. The result of education through FGD was an improvement in the literacy of the Munggur Village community about the tornado disaster and its mitigation which is integrated with the local knowledge and local wisdom, so that synergy occurs between local knowledge, local wisdom and scientific knowledge. The synergy is expected to improve the capacity of the community, so that the level of disaster risk can be reduced.