International Conference on Hazard Mitigation in Geographic and Education Perspectives
BACKGROUND
Indonesia is a country which is prone to disasters which include natural, non-natural, and social disasters. Natural disasters consist of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis, floods, landslides, droughts, and typhoons. Non-natural disasters include epidemics and outbreaks of disease, while social disasters consists of social conflicts and terrors. Those disasters may occur due to the natural factors, human factors, and the combination of both.
The distribution of disasters in Indonesia, viewed from the type of disaster, is highly affected by the natural conditions and societies. Those disasters may cause loss of life, infrastructure damage, environmental damage, and unstable economic condition.
Disasters are difficult to predict when they will occur. But, their signs and causes can be investigated scientifically. Therefore, a disaster management must become a priority. Disaster management requires to be performed to reduce the disaster risks which are likely exposed to the society.
The disaster management needs to be carried out through some reinforcements, such as disaster mitigation, sustainable development, community-based disaster management, disaster management for children, elderly, disability, and women, the information systems of disasters, government policy, post disaster social services, information media literacy, interpersonal communication, and the history of disasters. Those reinforcements are expected to increase the resilience of societies living around the disaster-prone areas.
In December 2019, the COVID-19 case was found in Wuhan, China. COVID-19 stands for corona virus disease 2019, a disease caused by a virus called Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV2) or known as coronavirus. The COVID-19 pandemic has posed a challenge to all aspects of human life in the world, including Indonesia. The Indonesian government has issued some policies to deal with this problem; one of them is promoting a social distancing to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This policy is one of the forms to strengthen the societies’ resilience to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic.
The community reinforcement is also important to deal with other disasters problems. To successfully increase the communities’ resilience, the cooperation of various parties, including the government, the community, and the stakeholders is badly needed. Based on this problem, Faculty of Social Sciences, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia will hold an international conference on "Disaster Management to Improve the Societies’ Resilience."
ABOUT UNIVERSITAS NEGERI YOGYAKARTA
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) is a university conveniently located in Sleman District of the Yogyakarta Special Territory. Despite its relatively new status as a university, UNY still maintains a strong reputation as an educational institution which not only produces professional teachers and caters for the education sector but has now expanded into the fields of non-educational sector together in each faculty. In view of that, in order to have scientific encounters of inter-disciplines in educational and non-educational fields and to produce professional and qualified teachers besides qualified graduates of non-educational programs, UNY consciously and responsibly continues to improve itself, both internally and externally. Internally, the academic members of UNY continually work to consolidate and qualitatively improve its human and non-human resources. Externally, UNY tries to extend the cooperation networks to related parties in local, regional, national, and international levels.
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (UNY) has been established as part of the dynamic organizational development of Indonesian higher educational institutions in response to fast-changing societal demands. It is shown in the dynamic changes of its organization structure, starting from its establishment in 1964 until nowadays.
Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta (originally IKIP Yogyakarta) was founded on 21st May 1964. IKIP Yogyakarta was a merger of two educational institutions: the Faculty of Pedagogy of Gadjah Mada University and the Teacher Education Institute. These two institutions catered for education science and teacher education. The merger itself was regulated by the Presidential Decree of the Republic of Indonesia Number I/1963. The conversion of IKIP Yogyakarta into a university was based on some considerations such as the observations that the organizational structure of educational institution was too limited to support scientific development and that the number of graduates of IKIP Yogyakarta succeeding who enter non-teaching job markets also increased.
The early stage of the conversion of IKIP Yogyakarta into a university began with the opening of 12 non-educational study programs at the S-1 and D-III levels in the Faculty of Languages and Arts Education, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences Education, and the Faculty of Engineering and Vocational Education.
PUBLICATION
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