Living in Huntara During The Covid-19 Pandemic (Communication Ethnography of the PASIGALA Earthquake Victims Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic)

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VIII, August 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Living in Huntara During The Covid-19 Pandemic (Communication Ethnography of the PASIGALA Earthquake Victims Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic)

Sudarwin S
Social Science Study Program Postgraduate Doctoral Program, Tadulako University, Indonesia
*Corresponding Author

Abstract: This research is motivated by the term waste and ba kojo as a communication event of the community living together at the Taipa Beach shelter due to the earthquake on September 28th, 2018, in Palu city. The purpose of this study is to describe and know in-depth the communication patterns between fellow disaster survivors and between disaster survivors and related parties, in this case, the Palu city government, both verbal and nonverbal. To achieve this goal, the researcher uses an ethnographic approach to communication through qualitative methods. Determination of informants as many as 14 (fourteen) people using purposive sampling. The instrument in this study used participant observation and non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. Technique analysis data using interactive model analysis data by Miles and Huberman with triangulating methods, the sources of data, and theories. The leading idea used as a reference in this study is the ethnography of communication by Hymes with combined of Berger’s approach in terms of social life and related to the dialectic of externalization, objectivation, and internalization. The results of this study reveal: (1) the communication patterns of fellow Taipa beach disaster survivors are influenced by the state of the environment where they live through transcendental communication. (2) The communication pattern of disaster survivors with related parties (government) has experienced many obstacles due to the relationship with bureaucratic communication patterns.

Keywords: Living in shelters during the covid 19 pandemic, the Ethnography of Communication, Earthquake Victims

I.INTRODUCTION

There is a new community which we call the Huntara community. There were people from a variety of different backgrounds. Their presence was due to an earthquake natural disaster accompanied by liquefaction and shock on September 28th, 2018. This event became known as the Pasigala earthquake, an abbreviation of the three affected areas, namely Palu City, Sigi Regency, Parigi Regency, and Donggala Regency. This incident has changed the social life of the people directly affected by the natural disaster (Wekke et al., 2019; Partelow, 2021). However, this research will deepen the study in terms of communication, how the communication phenomenon is, how they build communication, the content of the touch, and the mechanism of communicating with new people, meeting in new places and new ethnic groups.

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