Community Participation in Reducing the Risk of Flood Disaster in Tuminting District Manado City

Abstract

Floods have undesirable impacts including physical, social, economic, and environmental impacts, such as (1) Physical impacts are damage to public facilities, such as offices caused by flooding, and (2) Social impacts include death, health risks, mental trauma, disruption of educational activities, and other basic needs, (3) Economic impacts include material loss, disruption of economic activities such as people unable to go to work and others and (4) Environmental impacts include water pollution such as pollutants brought by the flood. Based on the results of the research and discussion above related to community participation in flood control in Tuminting sub-district, the following conclusions can be drawn: (1) Community participation in Tuminting sub-district in the implementation of development is good in providing ideas/ideas, providing material and financial assistance and participation in contributing energy is quite good. Although there are still some residents who have not been actively involved. The enthusiasm of the community in the Tuminting Sub-district to attend meetings in development planning is quite good, and working together in handling the flood problem is quite good, (2) The efforts of the Tuminting subdistrict government and the Tuminting, Sumampo, and Mahawu sub-districts in disaster mitigation activities and inviting the community to participate in flood disaster management is very good.

Keywords

• flood
• participation
• community
• management
• disaster