Flood is a disaster that potentially creates damage and disadvantage for human. Flood is one of the most regular disasters in Indonesia. DKI Jakarta was one of the provinces in Indonesia that regularly disturbed by flood. Along with the times, the development of this capital city is getting increased. This development is along with the high increasing of the people. The high population in this capital affected to the development of the capital city. Starting from the dense spatial issue to the high increasing of infrastructure, this case causes the lack of absorbing area and became the source of the flood in the other days. Flood in DKI Jakarta that happened in 1996, 2002, 2007, and 2013 was categorized as national and regional disaster because of the large area of the flood and the high amount of the victims than the other year. There were three impact of flood to the peoples of Jakarta, especially for the activity of this city, 1) social aspect that disturbed the activity of the peoples; 2) economic aspect that causes the disturbance for the mobility of the peoples that need a transportation fee; 3) environmental aspect that causes the damage to the infrastructure and causes any diseases. The damage that causes from disaster could make a change in the peoples. Because of that, it was important to make a new effort for develop and increase the potential endurance in community form. One of the best way that could be applied for develop the potential is make an empowerment to the people by non-formal education. Public Learning Centre or Pusat Kegiatan Belajar Masyarakat (PKBM) is one of empowerment institution for the people and part of the non-formal education. This paper investigates community resilience model by a group of affected people in East Jakarta. Community resilience is an approach to the case of people to investigate the community-led reaction to the flood. The aim of the research is to clarify the definition of community resilience in disaster studies and to understand how the community resilience in affected people, and finally to interpret the disaster as a “window of opportunity” for sustainable trajectories. Researcher followed two strategies to identify community resilience practices employed at the local level, the first phase focused on documentary sources to identify the actions taken at the community and state level in response. A second phase of the research involved interviews to triangulate the documentary sources with the practices of people who experienced the disaster. In identifying the research participant for this study researcher employed a snowball technique to seek interviewees with firsthand experienced of enduring the flood in the past. The result of this study is a community resilience theory and public learning centre theory, especially the synergy of both theories. Disaster resilience should not be interpreted as an outcome but as a process. Community resilience can be seen as ‘a process linking a set of networked adaptive capacities to a positive trajectory of functioning and adaptation in constituent population after a disturbance. It should consider sustainability the forefront of all community planning effort in society.

Keyword: Community Resilience, Flood, Public Learning Centre

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