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Gender Equality and Social Inclusion

Gender Mainstreaming in Post-Disaster Reconstruction in

West Sumatra

Mediana Desfita, Taufika Ophiyandri, Benny Hidayat,

Jendrius

Universitas Andalas

The frequency of natural disasters that occur in Indonesia is quite high, ranging from

earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, landslides, forest fires, and volcanic eruptions, disasters that are

directly caused by human activities. Some of the disasters that occurred in Indonesia were

small in scale, but many were very large and powerful, such as the tsunami in Nangroe Aceh

Darussalam, the tectonic earthquake in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, and 30 September
2009 earthquake in west sumatera. The tsunami and earthquake disasters caused enormous

damage to property and infrastructure as well as loss of life. Conditions like this require

Indonesia to develop and have special policies to deal with or deal with natural disasters

properly. If not, then the losses or victims due to natural disasters will be greater. An

earthquake on September 30, 2009 measuring 7.9 on the Richter scale struck the west coast
of Sumatra. causing loss of life and damage to infrastructure. Most of the victims occurred on

the island of Sumatra, especially Aceh and West Sumatra. There were 1,115 killed, 1,214 seriously

injured and 1,688 lightly injured. One of the important elements in efforts to build a natural

disaster management system is to evaluate and take important lessons from the activities or

systems for natural disaster management that have been carried out so far. Strengths and
successes as well as weaknesses and failures in natural disaster management that have been

carried out will be important lessons for building a better national system for natural disaster

management in the future. Therefore, A comprehensive study of natural disaster management

activities or systems should be used as learning materials to form a disaster management

system.Disaster preparedness by minimizing vulnerability has been identified as a better
approach to dealing with disasters than post-disaster response. Creating a culture of

prevention is critical to dealing with everyday hazards and the consequences of disasters.

Disaster risk reduction is defined as a conceptual framework, which considers the possibility of

minimizing the vulnerability and risk of disasters throughout society, to avoid (prevention) or to

limit (mitigation and preparedness) harm, Starting from the availability of shelters that are not

safe and in accordance with the needs, especially groups of women and children, the location

of the shelters is far from their initial residence. Likewise, the distribution of disaster aid has not
taken into account the special needs of this group of women and children. Knowing how the

gender effectiveness on reconstruction post-disaster in West Sumatra region, from the data of

natural disaster in west sumatera, and collecting data from the field from people who closed

related to the process of reconstruction post disasters in west sumatera. This study aims to

obtain an accurate description of the gender position in reconstruction post-disaster activities
in West Sumatra.

Keywords: Gender Mainstreaming, Reconstruction Post Disaster, West Sumatra

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