Year: 2003
Type: article
Abstract: Northern Part of Flores island, Indonesia was hit by earthquake and tsunami disaster in 1992, which killed 1,712 people. Indonesian Government prohibit to live in tsunami prone site of impacted area and constructed resettlement sites for those who are forced to move out from their original location. A adaptation to new environment is very difficult task for victims and there exist some resettlement sites that was abandoned within a few years. This paper deals with the relocation process of victims at resettlement site of 1992 Flores earthquake and tsunami disaster. And following points were clarified in this paper, though many people have moved back to the original location where is still prohibited to live on, 94% of housing in the resettlement site is occupied. Those who continue to live in the resettlement site are those who do not have a land at original location, e.g. they lost their land for disaster, they rented house or lived with their relatives at the time of earthquake. It says that the reason why they continue to live in the resettlemet is not because they fear for tsunami, but they do not have a place to live in without resettlement site.
DOI: 10.3130/aija.68.1_4
Language: English
Subfield: Transportation
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W269879442