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Jong il Na
The implementation of the Yonmenkaigi system in Merapi volcano communities
Disaster risk management, Division of Urban Regional Disaster Control,
Department of Urban Management, Graduate School of Engineeringg
Place of stay: Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Term: June 27 – August 22, 2009
The objective of this activity (7/27-8/22) was to support the plan and evaluation method for disaster risk management of Merapi volcano communities. This was a cooperative project conducted by Kyoto University and Gadjah Mada Uiversity in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It consists of a pilot project for sand mining management, evacuation drills, and education and event for children and local communities around Merapi volcano.
One of my tasks was to introduce a method called the Yonmenkaigi system (YSM), originally developed in a local community in Japan, for the activities of facilitators of Gadjah Mada University. Another task was to improve the YSM and to adapt it to the Merapi mountains communities. Just a few days after my arrival in Yogyakarta, I participated in and monitored a meeting to explain a plan to conduct evacuation drill (7/30) in Glagaharjo village and a fire evacuation drill (8/1) held in Kemiren Village in Merapi. During my trip, I planed the implementation of a participatory workshop for sand mining management and made the action plan for an event for disaster reduction using the YSM. For this purpose, we created the action plan to carry out the workshop using the YSM (8/7).
