Study of social vulnerability as an effort on disaster risk reduction (study on suburban communities in Yogyakarta, Indonesia)

Abstract

A community-level social vulnerability assessment is an important on disaster risk reduction system. The methods to measure social vulnerability in this study used variables of education level, health level, income level and vulnerable groups. The study was conducted through a census of 365 rural community households in Bantul District, Yogyakarta Special Region. The research method was quantitative with scoring system on each influential variable. The results showed that between variables of vulnerability have relevance, where people with low income have a tendency level of low education. The results show that marginalized communities were at high vulnerability level, with the details were as follows: 35.1% of the community were at high social vulnerability (very vulnerable) and 56.4% of the community were people with moderate social vulnerability; people with low vulnerability was only 8.5%. The high number of vulnerable people in the periphery was because most of the population had low income and education level. The vulnerability distribution of each household in this study is further presented in maps to facilitate spatial analysis.