Suharini Erni, Herlina Meri, Kurniawan Edi
Natural disasters always occur in Indonesia which certainly cause casualties or losses. One of the disasters that has occurred several times and caused many fatalities is the eruption of Mount Kelud in Kediri, East Java. But with this disaster, it turns out to build the culture of the people who live around it commonly called local wisdom. The purpose of this study is to 1) Analyze the wisdom of local communities to mitigate volcanic eruptions; 2) Analyzing the efforts made by the community as a form of mitigation of volcanic eruptions. Approval of qualitative research, snowball sampling technique sampling, data collection techniques using observation techniques, interviews and documentation and data validity techniques using triangulation techniques is made. This study revealed that the community of Mount Kelud slopes still holds the wisdom of the Kasada ceremonial tradition which is commemorated every Kasada month which is the 7th day for worship to the guard of Mount Kelud known by the people of Kediri as Lembu Suro for the sake of public safety. In addition to local wisdom, the Kelud Mountain slope community also made other efforts in disaster mitigation, namely construction of river water canal waterways and the existence of a disaster response community. The community must always preserve existing local wisdom and improve the effectiveness of canal and the role of the disaster response community as an effort to mitigate the eruption of Mount Kelud and increase the capacity of the community. © 2020, World Research Association. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
