| Summary: | Mount Merapi, the most active eruptive mountain, erupted in 2010 and
caused 82.10 % of Gunung Merapi National Park (GMNP) area that became nonvegetation
area. The eruption also degraded many community livelihoods.
This research conducted to examine the relevance of the program of GMNP in
post-eruption period which is related to area recovery and to make necessary
recommendation for improvement, in facing of not completed rehabilitation
program to recover the affected area.
By the Means-End relationship supporting by PCM, it was resulted that
rehabilitation program should be completed according to the planning. In
verifying process, the interview was conducted to get opinions related to 5 (five)
main issues, consisted of: management plan issue, physical protection facilities
issue, community issue, staff training issue and updating GMNP specific data
issue.
Based on the analysis and discussion, 4 (four) conclusions are resulted.
First, GMNP management was not able to complete the rehabilitation programs of
post 2010 Mt. Merapi eruption. The problem was caused by 3 (three) factors,
consist of: (1) recovery action was not fully accepted by local government, (2)
GMNP recovery plan was not suited to the conditions of the affected area, and (3)
the activities of the people who tried to gain income by selling natural resources
inside GMNP area was not stopped.
Second, to improve the effectiveness of GMNP management program, the
top priority of GMNP should be placed on responding to rehabilitation with
consideration to the preparedness against eruption by updating data which reflect
the characteristics of Mt. Merapi integrating data with database systems that
should be made easily accessible.
Third, to control peoples' activities which were damaging resources inside
GMNP area, replacing broken physical protection facilities and proposing
additional necessary facilities should be realized. Community involvement and
understanding of zoning system should be strengthened. Number of trained staff is
necessary to be increased.
Fourth, creating a clear management program, synchronizing recovery
program among government agencies, increasing community role in GMNP
management, collecting and providing Mt. Merapi eruption related data and
strengthening networks among stakeholders are the key factors to create recovery
program and its implementation.
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