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records on interesting and novel youth-led innovation, e.g., a portable evacuation
shelter that received a nomination in a 2014 national design competition, development
of disaster and humanitarian open map initiatives and the award-winning Jakarta
Flood Alert,
11 a mobile app that monitors 14 sluices for current water levels and
informs users of the chance on upcoming floods, which received recognition through
the Code for Resilience and Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR).
Truly, youth are able to bring creative ideas on DRR (Barlett 2008). Although, in
contrast, still a great number of youths (11.56%) are involved only on cash or in-kind
donation during disasters.
Less youth, however, engaged or initiated in “hard or structural mitigation”
(8.44%) and “risk assessment or similar” (5.78%). On the former one, most of the
youth contributed or initiated natural mitigation efforts, such as mangrove plantation
to reduce the risk of tsunamis or tree plantation to reduce the risk of landslides. Very
few of them, in fact only one participant based on our records, declared involvement in structural mitigation, such as the construction of a retaining wall to reduce
landslide. On the latter, youth mostly participated as analysts on risk assessment in
projects initiated by the government or NGOs. Only 7 participants (3.11%) were
involved in “DRR policy or framework development or similar”. About half of them
refer to their participation as youth delegates in the 5th and 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Yogyakarta-Indonesia and BangkokThailand, respectively. One refers to engagement with Local Disaster Management
Agency (BPBD) on formulating DRR policy and another one refers to advocacy to
the national government on safe schools. Clearly, the area of strategic partnership
for national and local DRR policy and framework formulation is where Indonesian
youth lacks engagement.
Furthermore, when asked, “How will you use the knowledge and skills you gained
from the Children & Youth Forum?”, almost all answered “will re-share the lessons
from this forum”. However, some of the youth do not belong to any organization,
so they would not have the channel to implement potential lessons learned from the
forum. On the other hand, some already have potential channels as described:
I will use my knowledge and skill that I gained to share to the people especially in my
area through my English Zone community at my beginners’ discussion group by making
Disaster Risk Reduction Discussion to discuss, inform and share to them about this Children
and Youth Forum in Sendai Japan. I will share my knowledge as well to my campus through
Physics English Club in Riau University (female, 22 years of age).
Furthermore, some of the youth are actually able to think strategically and realize
the need for a dedicated youth platform on DRR in Indonesia:
I will ask to Indonesia Student & Youth Forum to make the same program like the Children
& Youth Forum do, and I will share my experience, knowledge, and skills to my friends in
here. (Male, 19 years of age).
11 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/06/30/ (Last accessed December 27, 2016).
F. Shidiq et al.
records on interesting and novel youth-led innovation, e.g., a portable evacuation
shelter that received a nomination in a 2014 national design competition, development
of disaster and humanitarian open map initiatives and the award-winning Jakarta
Flood Alert,
11 a mobile app that monitors 14 sluices for current water levels and
informs users of the chance on upcoming floods, which received recognition through
the Code for Resilience and Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR).
Truly, youth are able to bring creative ideas on DRR (Barlett 2008). Although, in
contrast, still a great number of youths (11.56%) are involved only on cash or in-kind
donation during disasters.
Less youth, however, engaged or initiated in “hard or structural mitigation”
(8.44%) and “risk assessment or similar” (5.78%). On the former one, most of the
youth contributed or initiated natural mitigation efforts, such as mangrove plantation
to reduce the risk of tsunamis or tree plantation to reduce the risk of landslides. Very
few of them, in fact only one participant based on our records, declared involvement in structural mitigation, such as the construction of a retaining wall to reduce
landslide. On the latter, youth mostly participated as analysts on risk assessment in
projects initiated by the government or NGOs. Only 7 participants (3.11%) were
involved in “DRR policy or framework development or similar”. About half of them
refer to their participation as youth delegates in the 5th and 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Yogyakarta-Indonesia and BangkokThailand, respectively. One refers to engagement with Local Disaster Management
Agency (BPBD) on formulating DRR policy and another one refers to advocacy to
the national government on safe schools. Clearly, the area of strategic partnership
for national and local DRR policy and framework formulation is where Indonesian
youth lacks engagement.
Furthermore, when asked, “How will you use the knowledge and skills you gained
from the Children & Youth Forum?”, almost all answered “will re-share the lessons
from this forum”. However, some of the youth do not belong to any organization,
so they would not have the channel to implement potential lessons learned from the
forum. On the other hand, some already have potential channels as described:
I will use my knowledge and skill that I gained to share to the people especially in my
area through my English Zone community at my beginners’ discussion group by making
Disaster Risk Reduction Discussion to discuss, inform and share to them about this Children
and Youth Forum in Sendai Japan. I will share my knowledge as well to my campus through
Physics English Club in Riau University (female, 22 years of age).
Furthermore, some of the youth are actually able to think strategically and realize
the need for a dedicated youth platform on DRR in Indonesia:
I will ask to Indonesia Student & Youth Forum to make the same program like the Children
& Youth Forum do, and I will share my experience, knowledge, and skills to my friends in
here. (Male, 19 years of age).
11 https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2014/06/30/ (Last accessed December 27, 2016).