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CHAPTER ONE PLANNING OF ACTIVITIES
1.1. Background
Climate change is real. The phenomenon such as the delayed and shorter rainy season with intense rainfall and more intense heat significantly increased the threats of disasters such as
floods, hurricanes, tropical cyclone, endemic, drought, El Nino, tsunamis and other catastrophic. For the coastal communities, climate change poses very serious threats. The small size of islands
makes the people more vulnerable environmentally, economically, and socially. The vulnerability arises from islands’ limited resources, export concentration, high dependence on strategic
imports and remoteness, high transportation costs, and vulnerability to disasters threats exacerbated by climate change impacts.
Although there have been efforts at global, regional, and national levels for comprehensive disaster risk and climate change impact assessments, and their integration within development
plans, less has been done at the community level, especially in coastal areas and small islands.
Bingkai Indonesia believes that the community always has the capability to adapt and to create coping mechanism to overcome the hazard risk and climate change impact. Many communities,
especially those living in the small islands, have local and indigenous knowledge that are maintained and developed as a result of their extended interactions with the natural
environment, including those related to natural hazards and climate change.
As Bingkai Indonesia found in Lipang Island, on the coast of Pacific in Northern Sulawesi, the people who were affected by the sea level rise and coast abration adapted to the changes by
planting Nipa palm Nypa fruticans and Beach Almond terminalia cattapa trees along the coastline. Fishermen also moved the fish catchment area on the sea following the change in the
fish migration route.
In Simeulue, Aceh, the community retain information about the smong tsunami through tales inherited from generation to generation through stories and traditional art; Nanga-Nanga,
sikambang and nandong. Smong has become a collective memory part of the Simeulue community identity. Pieces of poetry about smong can be found at lullabies in Simeulue.
In the coast of Java, farmers and fishermen in Pandansari, Brebes, Jawa Tengah survive in the midst of extreme weather by planting salt water-resistant rice that previously planted by their
ancestors. Such knowledge can be used to increase communities’ resilience when hazards strike.
1.2. Objectives
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