FLOOD DISASTERS IN MALAYSIA: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND INTERVENTION.
TEXTURA
JURNAL ILMIAH PENELITIAN DAN PENGEMBANGAN
ILMU LINGUISTIK DAN PENGAJARAN BAHASA
POLITEKMK PIKSI GANESHA BANDUNG
Jurnal ini terbit dua kali setahun, yaitu pada bulan Januari dan Juli. Jurnal ini berisi artikel tulisan
ilmiah dalam bentuk pcnelitian, kajian analisis, aplikasi teori, dan pembahasan tentang berbagai
masalah yang berkaitan dengan bidang ilmu-ilmu Linguistik, Sosial dan Humaniora. Jurnal ini
mengambii nama TEXTURA, yang diambil dari bahasa Latin yang bermakna struktur, jaringan,
dan bahasa, dengan pemahaman bahwa bahasa dalam arti luas adalah sangat beragam, berstruktur,
tetapi juga saling tcrkait, saling terhubung, membentuk jaringan yang padu. Semangat inilah yang
menjadi landasan terbitnya jurnal ilmiah ini, agar semua pihak, para cendekiawan, staf pengajar,
mahasiswa, dan pemerhati kajian bidang ilmu Linguistik dan Pengajaran Bahasa dapat saling
berbagi dan berinteraksi, agar dapat meningkatkan kuantitas, kualitas, dan penyebarluasan kajian
diatas.
PELINDUNG
DR. H. K. Prihartono AH, Drs., S.Sos., MM.
PEMIMPIN REDAKSI
E. Wityasminingsih, S.Pd., M.Hum.
DEW AN REDAKSI
Neneng yuniarty, SS., M.Hum.
Kosasih, S.Pd., MM. Heri
Heryono, SS., M.Hum.
MITRA BESTARI
DR. Rita Zulbetti, MM.
% PENYUNTING BAHASA
Santy Christinawati, SS., M.Hum.
Novitasari, SS., M.Hum
STAF REDAKSI
Ferri Sutanto, S.St.
Alamat Redaksi/Penerbit:
Politeknik Piksi Ganesha
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto No.301 Bandung 40274
Telp. 022 87 3400 30 Fax. 022 87 3400 86
Email: iurnalilmiah_piksi@yahoo.com
www.piksi-ganesha-online.ac.id
Percetakan:
Caraka Indonesia
Harga langganan
(Pengganti Biaya produksi)
Pulau Jawa Luar Pulau Jawa
Rp. 50.000,Rp. 60.000,-
DAFTAR ISI
TEXTURA - Jurnal Hmiah Penelitian dan
Pengembangan Ilmu-Ilmu Linguistik, Sosial dan
Humaniora
COLLOQUIAL PHENOMENON ON SOCIAL MEDIA
1
Santy Christinawati
KEWENANGAN PERADILAN AGAMA DALAM PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA EKONOMI SYARIAH
5
Ahmad Damiri
EDUCATION AS THE ENRICHING DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO UNIQUE PERSONS
18
Ramon E. Nadres
AN ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS USED IN COMPUTER REGISTER
31
Wahyu Trimastuti
TINJAUAN SYARIAH TERHADAP TRANSAKSI DI INTERNET
48
Fauzi Chaniago, isak Abdulgani
FLOOD DISASTERS IN MALAYSIA: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND INTERVENTION
55
Noremy Md Akhir, Azlinda Azman, Muhammad Fadhil Nurdin
'PARIT' KOMIK: IMAJINASl, IDE, DAN KOMPOSISI CERITA
63
Yudhy Purwanto, Neneng Yuniarty
METODE QUR'ANI YANG BERORIENTASI PADA PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER
Cucun Kindarasa
77
FLOOD DISASTERS IN MALAYSIA: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND
INTERVENTION
*Noremy Md Akhir, Azlinda Azman, Ph.D and Muhammad Fadhil Nurdin,Ph.D
Universiti Sains Malaysia
l'1800 Penang, Malaysia
ABSTRACT
Flood disasters are stressful and troubling because it forces people to confront their
vulnerabilities and crises situation. Flood disasters often lead to high levels of collectives
stress as they are very limited resources during the crisis situation. Regardless of the level of
injury or loss experienced, most of the time people in the affected area will face a certain
amount of emotional distress and anxiety. Some may have lost spouses, children, parents or
others family members or friends. The scenario of being homeless and jobless, with no proper
psychological care, can at times lead victim into depression. Continuous traumatic situation
in flood disaster situation may results in psychological disorders that could be manifest in
different forms which subsequently affect the lives of the victim. As a consequence, people
might feel a great sense of helplessness and experiencing psychological trauma in addition to
the severe physical damages. In the first instance, the victims need medical treatment,
emergency safety, shelter, food and drinking water as well as financial assistance. However
people can develop psychological problem following such traumatic events that need other
form of psychological intervention. This paper will analyse the concept ofpsychosocial
interventions from a various social work perspectives in order to address the psychosocial
issues among the victims of flood disasters in Malaysia.
Keywords: Flood disasters, psychosocial problems, psychosocial intervention, social work
intervention.
Introduction
United
Nation
International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR,
2009) defined disasters as a serious
disruption of the functioning of society,
causing widespread human, material or
environmental losses which exceed the
ability of the affected society to cope using
its own resources. Soliman and Rogge
(2002) mentioned that disasters as an
events that disable community social
functioning. This is because during
disasters,
individual,
families,
and
communities suffer from trauma, stress and
debilitation in every dimension of their
daily lives from the loss of life and health,
community infrastructure, property, jobs,
personal belongings and social ties. This
required external assistance for response
and recovery which have emotional
and psychological effects, and it also
require reconstruction of shattered lives and
built environment. Since this paper will
discuss disasters issues based on Malaysia
perspective, thus according to Malaysian
National Security Council, Direction No.
20, disasters is defined as an incident that
occurs in a sudden manner, complex in
nature, resulting in the loss of lives,
damages to property or the environment as
well as affecting the daily activities of local
community. Such incident requires the
handling
of
resources,
equipment,
frequency and extensive manpower from
various agencies as well as effective
coordination and the possibility of
demanding complex actions over a long
period of time.
Yodmani (2001) stated that there
are two types of disasters and it could be
categorized under natural and technological
disaster or also known as man-made event.
Generally, natural disasters are linked
ciosely with environmental concerns and
can be categorized into four events which
are geophysical events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis
and
volcanic
eruptions;
meteorological events such as cyclonic
JURNAL ILMIAH PENELITIAN DAN PENGEMBANGAN
ILMU LINGUISTIK DAN PENGAJARAN BAHASA
POLITEKMK PIKSI GANESHA BANDUNG
Jurnal ini terbit dua kali setahun, yaitu pada bulan Januari dan Juli. Jurnal ini berisi artikel tulisan
ilmiah dalam bentuk pcnelitian, kajian analisis, aplikasi teori, dan pembahasan tentang berbagai
masalah yang berkaitan dengan bidang ilmu-ilmu Linguistik, Sosial dan Humaniora. Jurnal ini
mengambii nama TEXTURA, yang diambil dari bahasa Latin yang bermakna struktur, jaringan,
dan bahasa, dengan pemahaman bahwa bahasa dalam arti luas adalah sangat beragam, berstruktur,
tetapi juga saling tcrkait, saling terhubung, membentuk jaringan yang padu. Semangat inilah yang
menjadi landasan terbitnya jurnal ilmiah ini, agar semua pihak, para cendekiawan, staf pengajar,
mahasiswa, dan pemerhati kajian bidang ilmu Linguistik dan Pengajaran Bahasa dapat saling
berbagi dan berinteraksi, agar dapat meningkatkan kuantitas, kualitas, dan penyebarluasan kajian
diatas.
PELINDUNG
DR. H. K. Prihartono AH, Drs., S.Sos., MM.
PEMIMPIN REDAKSI
E. Wityasminingsih, S.Pd., M.Hum.
DEW AN REDAKSI
Neneng yuniarty, SS., M.Hum.
Kosasih, S.Pd., MM. Heri
Heryono, SS., M.Hum.
MITRA BESTARI
DR. Rita Zulbetti, MM.
% PENYUNTING BAHASA
Santy Christinawati, SS., M.Hum.
Novitasari, SS., M.Hum
STAF REDAKSI
Ferri Sutanto, S.St.
Alamat Redaksi/Penerbit:
Politeknik Piksi Ganesha
Jl. Jend. Gatot Subroto No.301 Bandung 40274
Telp. 022 87 3400 30 Fax. 022 87 3400 86
Email: iurnalilmiah_piksi@yahoo.com
www.piksi-ganesha-online.ac.id
Percetakan:
Caraka Indonesia
Harga langganan
(Pengganti Biaya produksi)
Pulau Jawa Luar Pulau Jawa
Rp. 50.000,Rp. 60.000,-
DAFTAR ISI
TEXTURA - Jurnal Hmiah Penelitian dan
Pengembangan Ilmu-Ilmu Linguistik, Sosial dan
Humaniora
COLLOQUIAL PHENOMENON ON SOCIAL MEDIA
1
Santy Christinawati
KEWENANGAN PERADILAN AGAMA DALAM PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA EKONOMI SYARIAH
5
Ahmad Damiri
EDUCATION AS THE ENRICHING DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO UNIQUE PERSONS
18
Ramon E. Nadres
AN ANALYSIS OF COMPOUND WORDS USED IN COMPUTER REGISTER
31
Wahyu Trimastuti
TINJAUAN SYARIAH TERHADAP TRANSAKSI DI INTERNET
48
Fauzi Chaniago, isak Abdulgani
FLOOD DISASTERS IN MALAYSIA: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND INTERVENTION
55
Noremy Md Akhir, Azlinda Azman, Muhammad Fadhil Nurdin
'PARIT' KOMIK: IMAJINASl, IDE, DAN KOMPOSISI CERITA
63
Yudhy Purwanto, Neneng Yuniarty
METODE QUR'ANI YANG BERORIENTASI PADA PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER
Cucun Kindarasa
77
FLOOD DISASTERS IN MALAYSIA: THE PSYCHOSOCIAL ISSUES AND
INTERVENTION
*Noremy Md Akhir, Azlinda Azman, Ph.D and Muhammad Fadhil Nurdin,Ph.D
Universiti Sains Malaysia
l'1800 Penang, Malaysia
ABSTRACT
Flood disasters are stressful and troubling because it forces people to confront their
vulnerabilities and crises situation. Flood disasters often lead to high levels of collectives
stress as they are very limited resources during the crisis situation. Regardless of the level of
injury or loss experienced, most of the time people in the affected area will face a certain
amount of emotional distress and anxiety. Some may have lost spouses, children, parents or
others family members or friends. The scenario of being homeless and jobless, with no proper
psychological care, can at times lead victim into depression. Continuous traumatic situation
in flood disaster situation may results in psychological disorders that could be manifest in
different forms which subsequently affect the lives of the victim. As a consequence, people
might feel a great sense of helplessness and experiencing psychological trauma in addition to
the severe physical damages. In the first instance, the victims need medical treatment,
emergency safety, shelter, food and drinking water as well as financial assistance. However
people can develop psychological problem following such traumatic events that need other
form of psychological intervention. This paper will analyse the concept ofpsychosocial
interventions from a various social work perspectives in order to address the psychosocial
issues among the victims of flood disasters in Malaysia.
Keywords: Flood disasters, psychosocial problems, psychosocial intervention, social work
intervention.
Introduction
United
Nation
International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR,
2009) defined disasters as a serious
disruption of the functioning of society,
causing widespread human, material or
environmental losses which exceed the
ability of the affected society to cope using
its own resources. Soliman and Rogge
(2002) mentioned that disasters as an
events that disable community social
functioning. This is because during
disasters,
individual,
families,
and
communities suffer from trauma, stress and
debilitation in every dimension of their
daily lives from the loss of life and health,
community infrastructure, property, jobs,
personal belongings and social ties. This
required external assistance for response
and recovery which have emotional
and psychological effects, and it also
require reconstruction of shattered lives and
built environment. Since this paper will
discuss disasters issues based on Malaysia
perspective, thus according to Malaysian
National Security Council, Direction No.
20, disasters is defined as an incident that
occurs in a sudden manner, complex in
nature, resulting in the loss of lives,
damages to property or the environment as
well as affecting the daily activities of local
community. Such incident requires the
handling
of
resources,
equipment,
frequency and extensive manpower from
various agencies as well as effective
coordination and the possibility of
demanding complex actions over a long
period of time.
Yodmani (2001) stated that there
are two types of disasters and it could be
categorized under natural and technological
disaster or also known as man-made event.
Generally, natural disasters are linked
ciosely with environmental concerns and
can be categorized into four events which
are geophysical events such as earthquakes,
tsunamis
and
volcanic
eruptions;
meteorological events such as cyclonic