Abstract:
Woman, either as an individualor as a group, is a social entity in society. The roles of
women in society have been widely recognized. The roles were also recognized in
the occurrence of flash flood in District of Panti, Jember Regency. The roles of
women groupswere big either at the times of the emergency response,
reconstruction phase and also the mitigation phase. Using the framework of social
capital theory of Michael Woolcook, this paper will review bonding, bridging and
linking social capital in the women groups in disaster management in District of
Panti. The large number of various women groups and spread in all society levels, is
a potential social capital in disaster management. The women groups were, among
others, weekly Muslimat (women group under Nahdlatul Ulama organization) group,
quarterly Muslimat group, arisan (money pool) group, hadrah (tambourine in Islamic
ceremonials) group, dama(a group of ten families in the same neighborhood) and
also PKK. These women groups also worked together with women group in other
areas, such as Muslimat, Aisyiyah (women group under Muhammadiyah
management), MHTI, KAMMI and Salimah, forming a network. The network of these
groups can fasilitate socialization and trainings on disaster, skills training, access to
capital, library establishment or business network.
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Jurnal Entitas Sosiologi, Vol II, No 1, Februari 2015
