Resilience of Acehnese Survivors of Civil War and Tsunami (abstract only)  

Oleh:

Suleeman, Julia

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 317.
Topik: Acehnese; civil war and tsunami survivors; Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale; resilience; Wagnild’s characteristics of resilience
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 43.pdf (211.35KB)

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This study aims to find out about the resilience of Acehnese survivors of civil war and tsunami. The civil war had started decades ago between a group called GAM, abbreviation of Gerakan Aceh Merdeka (Aceh Independence Movement) and the Indonesian government. The majority of Acehnese who live in North Sumatra, Indonesia, were split between following GAM and the Indonesian government. However, following tsunami that struck North Sumatra in December 2004 and other peace movements, the civil war tend to decrease before finally ended in 2005. However, the pain is still there, not easily removed by peace agreement between fighting parties, as shown by several studies (see for instance, Mundzir, 2013). This report, as part of a larger study on resilience among people who were having disasters, focuses on the differences on resilience of Acehnese who experienced both civil war and tsunami and those who only experienced tsunami. Altogether around 150 people from 15 until 60 years old participated in this study. Data collection techniques are Connor- Davidson Resilience Scale (2003) of 10 items for all participants, and individual interviews for 18 selected participants. The interview uses Wagnild’s (2010) framework of resilience that consists of 5 dimensions, i.e. meaningfulness, perseverance, equanimity, self-reliance, and existential aloneness. The results show that there are some differences on the resilience scores between those having both civil war and tsunami experiences, and those having only tsunami experiences with the later group having higher resilience scores. Compared to adults, adolescents are having lower resilience scores. The differences on resilience scores are reflected more clearly in the individual interviews. Specifically, those having both civil war and tsunami experiences, still have difficulties on equanimity and existential aloneness. There is also a tendency among the young people to forget about the civil war and the impact it created in older people. The implications of the study are important to design an intervention to help the survivors find meaningful life experiences from traumatic events, whether it is coming form the civil war or from the tsunami.

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