Nurjanna Joko Trilaksono
The Citarum River tends to overflow into flooding during the rainy season and inundates several sub-districts in South Bandung including Majalaya. Floods in this area need to be dealt with comprehensively, both structurally and non-tructured. In this community service program activity, the Atmospheric Science Expertise Group (KKSA) of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) took the initiative to contribute to the Community of Majalaya and its surroundings by implementing technology to develop early warning systems for flooding. This activity will involve local governments, in this case the sub-district, and non-governmental organizations (NGO) Garda Caah and Jaga Hall who have been built with good communication with KKSA. In building an early warning system of community-based flood disasters, the most important main factor is community involvement. In addition, the development of this flood early warning system needs to be well documented, so that every step or process of this development can be published easily, evaluated, or replicated elsewhere. Therefore the activities carried out on community service are (1) training in increasing public knowledge regarding early warning systems, meteorology, and hydrology related to flooding, (2) training on the use of the Weather and Care System (maintenance) AWS and weather predictions for warnings Early flood-based community / community in the Majalaya Subdistrict area, (3) the workshop of developing community-based flood-based warning systems, (4) Documentation of the development of community-based flood early warning systems in video format.
Application of appropriate technology, the implementation of social care activities in the form of education / counseling / mentoring, disaster emergency handling
In 2015, KKSA ITB has installed an Automatic Weather Station (AWS) tool in Majalaya and integrates it into an integrated early warning information system. The existence of this information system has been felt by the community, but the community has not been actively involved and does not yet have the skills in operating this system. In practice, in the community-based early warning system, the role of society is skilled so that this system can continue to grow and benefit it better.