Social Capital in Mitigating Flood Disaster in the People of Aceh Tenggara, Indonesia Open Access Indonesia Journal of Social Sciences

The objective of this research was to analyze and discuss the social capital owned by the community in Aceh Tenggara in mitigating flood disasters. The research used the descriptive qualitative method. Our study revealed social capital owned by the community in Aceh Tenggara could help mitigate flood disasters. Cooperation among the central government, the regional government, and the local people seemed to be very good. It was performed commencing from helping the people in the post-incidence of the flood until its mitigation plan. The Cooperation has eventually established trust in the local people and the government that was involved in the policymaking, relocation activity, and distribution to the flood victims. The use of the values of people's local wisdom, such as 'Pelengakhi' (working together) by the local people, helped the flood victims. They also helped spread information about the flood through mosque loudspeakers. This social capital has become a collective strength owned by the local people in mitigating flood disasters.


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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License Badar Sub-district, are caused by the overflow of the Alas River, which begins to undergo a decrease in environmental quality; it can be seen from the problems of its DAS (Watershed) in the rainy season that can cause a flood on its corridor and overflows to the land. Besides the problems of the Alas River watershed, the embankment in the upper course of the river has been eroded so that it is unable to hold the flow velocity of the river water when it rains (BPS, 2015).
Even though the flood is a serious threat for some of the people in Aceh Tenggara Regency, it seems that People's efficiency can be created by coordination and Cooperation in order to achieve mutual benefit (Putnam, 2007). Social capital ties and unites those who have similarities in important things, especially when they are facing problems and attempting to find a way out together. One of the similarities in their dwellings and region (Fathy, 2019). Developing and decreasing the vulnerable risk of disasters can be achieved through the use of capital; in this case, it social capital is emphasized. Therefore, this writing discusses how social capital owned by the people in Aceh Tenggara is used to mitigate flood disasters.

Social capital
Suharto (Aman et al., 2013) points out that social capital is manifested in the forms of trust, norms, and networks. This statement is closely related to social capital, which has been mentioned by Putnam. He further points out that social capital comprises information potential, obligation and expectation, effective norm and sanction, relationship and authority, and related social organizations (Putnam, 2007

Methods
This research was conducted in the community at

People's social capital in mitigating disaster
Local people's social capital at Natam Village, The awareness of developing this network needs the process of long-term symbolic interaction among the individuals so that they will eventually understand it.

External cooperation
The effort to mitigate flood disasters in Aceh Tenggara Regency begins with the awareness between the people and the local government that they need to damaged on the condition that the victims have to build rights certificates of the damaged houses. They will be granted IDR.30,000,000 (thirty million rupiahs). Their houses will be constructed by the government in places far from the mouth of the river (estuary). The government also plans to build a disaster alert village. The victims whose houses undergo mild and moderate damage will be moved to apartments even though they only rent the houses or houses without having any certificates. The victims whose houses have certificates will be moved to apartments, plus compensation of IDR.10,000,000 (ten million rupiahs) per family. All of the actions are done in order for the river dam to be reconstructed, and the estuary will function maximally by planting mangroves and implementing various regulations and sanctions so that the people will not build their houses by the river banks.

Internal cooperation
The

Trust
Trust in the form of the readiness to take a risk in a social relationship is based on self-confidence that other people will do something according to what he is expecting, and he always acts in a mutual supporting pattern in order not to harm him and his group (Coleman, 1994 From this interview, we can conclude that the local people's trust runs naturally so that there will be no conflict among the races, religions, tribes, and Good disaster mitigation includes people's active participation in fulfilling their real needs. Mitigation is considered effective when people themselves formulate their project proposals and will negotiate with the government or related agencies (Coburn et al., 1994).
Therefore, people's social capital is needed as the referential framework in implementing the accurate and quick process of disaster mitigation. In practice, social capital can have good and bad impacts on the process of disaster mitigation. It can be used to support the process of disaster mitigation when a community develops a network as broad as possible, along with the volunteers and the government; the important thing is participating in all activities concerning the process of disaster mitigation.
Meanwhile, social capital is regarded as obstructive in the process of disaster mitigation when a community that has a strong bond has a narrow scope of trust.
They believe in only a certain person; for example, they

Conclusion
Social capital owned by the people at Natam Village is used properly in an attempt to mitigate flood disaster, which often occurs. It begins with the Cooperation between the people and the government in improving the people's dwellings which have been devastated by floods. They also cooperate and spread information concerning flood disasters through mosque loudspeakers. Another social capital is the sense of trust between the people and the government through the giving of physical and non-physical aid and participation in flood disaster mitigation planning.
The people's participation can also be seen very well by using local values such as Pelengakhi in helping the people who have been affected by flood which