Role of social media towards flood disaster adaptation in Bojonegoro region of East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

The community along Solo Riverbank has strong ability to deal with their frequent flood disaster. It seems that their strong social tie through formal network of their community groups able to bring them live safely in the prone flood areas. This research scrutinized social tie of the community towards social media in order to strengthen capability of the community on dealing with flood disaster as the form of social structure through informal network. Questionnaire survey was distributed and analysed with social network approach covering three indices - rate of participation, density and centrality. The result illustrates that the whole indices have low level, meaning that social media played weak role towards flood disaster adaptation. Therefore, this research continued to measure social tie of the community towards multiple memberships on the local community groups as a form of formal network. Hence, this research suggests that integration between strong of social tie through formal network with weak of social tie through informal network migh enhance community resilient on dealing with flood disaster.