A cross-sectional study was conducted in 2018 to assess the perception of households on drought forecasts and its impact on crop and livestock losses. A total of 300 households from seven districts in East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia were considered. The study indicated that the majority of the households are poor families with low education background. They sold poultry for income generation during drought events. The survey revealed that only small percentage of the households usied forecast to support their livelihood management. The statistical test confirmed that the use of forecast did not necessarily impacted the crop loss. However, the crops were significantly affected by the response to drought forecast. Households that changed their agricultural practice experienced significantly different losses than households that did not do anything differently to their crops. The households argued that the accuracy of the forecasts issued by the government was very low. Therefore, it is recommended that policymakers and government authorities provide more accurate forecasts and a better strategy to increase household awareness of using drought forecasts.
A comprehensive and detailed description of household survey data that were collected in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia in 2018 is provided in this article. The survey was conducted using a structured questionnaire administered among 300 households in East Nusa Tenggara as one of the regions experiencing severe drought for more than a decade. The information about perceptions of drought and mitigation and adaptation strategies was collected from the head of household or household member. The survey comprises comprehensive information about household socio-demographic characteristics, household resources, agricultural activities, knowledge and perceptions of drought, experience with drought and adaptation strategy, mitigation of the impact of drought, future drought and the participation of women in decision making. The data are provided with this article.
Drought is a condition of a shortage of water that has an impact on economic activity. This research studies the severe drought area in Indonesia using Regional Frequency Analysis (RFA), based on daily precipitation data recorded at nine stations. The analysis reveals five homogeneous regions, based on discordancy and heterogeneity tests. Furthermore, the L-moment approach is applied to investigate the regional distribution and suggests that the Pearson type III distribution is the distribution that best fits the five regions. This distribution is also used to calculate the regional growth curve that is employed in the drought analysis. The drought return period analysis, for conditions of 40% of normal rainfall, concludes that the region containing the Fransiskus Xaverius, Gewayantana, and Mali stations has the highest drought risk, indicated by the fastest return period estimate of 2 years and 4 months. Moreover, the extreme drought analysis shows that two of the regions have the potential to experience the return of extreme drought, with less than 20% of normal rainfall, in less than four years.
Salah satu target pembangunan berkelanjutan (Sustainable Development Goals/SDGs) adalah meningkatkan kualitas pendidikan. Kualitas pendidikan dapat dilihat dari tingkat Indeks Pembangunan Manusia (IPM). Salah satu unsur yang digunakan untuk menghitung IPM, yaitu angka melek huruf, di mana hal tersebut dapat ditingkatkan melalui minat baca. Kota Surabaya merupakan kota besar di Indonesia, di mana minat baca di Kota Surabaya sudah tergolong tinggi. Tingginya minat baca tersebut, diduga terdapat faktor memengaruhi, seperti faktor teknologi, peran sekolah, peran orang tua dan metode bercerita. Untuk mengetahui faktor mana yang sebenarnya berpengaruh secara signifikan maka dianalisis dengan menggunakan metode Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). Hasil analisis menyimpulkan bahwa peran orang tua dan peran sekolah merupakan faktor yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap minat baca siswa SD/sederajat di Kota Surabaya. Sedangkan teknologi dan metode bercerita tidak berpengaruh signifikan terhadap minat baca siswa SD/sederajat di Kota Surabaya.
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