On Monday, March 13th 2017 Department of Sociology FISIP UI held a seminar titled “Disaster Awareness Education with Kamishibai Method”. The event that was held at Auditorium Komunikasi FISIP UI invited Yoko Takafuji from Wako University Japan as the speaker. Agus Nur Amal was also invited as the storyteller.
In the event, Yoko Takafuji socialized disaster mitigation by Kamishibai Method. Kamishibai is a Japanese culture that explains something by images.
By images that contains message, information that intended to be deliver would be more interesting and easily understood by targeted audience. In the seminar, Yoko Takafuji told that after earthquake and tsunami on Indian Ocean in 2004, researchers from Asian Studies Center of Rikkyo University of Japan cooperated with Wake University of Japan to conduct series of research on storytelling tradition related to disaster at Simeulue, Aceh.
“We realized that time span between the previous disaster to the next disaster could be 100 years. So we thought the method that could make people able to protect themselves without forgetting the possibility of next disaster in the future,” explained her.
In their previous research, they found that using local cultural heritage could make great impact in the attempts of reducing disaster impact. There are tales or local tradition that could be adopted to be educational materials of disaster mitigation.
