Abstract
This paper introduces a challenge of mutual knowledge development in the implementation of the Yonmnekaigi system as a participatory workshop method to improve sand mining management of local communities in Merapi Volcano of Indonesia. It was applied for the formulation of action plans on community-based sand mining management in Pilot Project implemented by Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia under Urgent Disaster Reduction Project for Mt. Merapi, Progo River Basin (JICA Loan No.: IP-524) executed by Directorate General of Water Resources, Ministry of Public Works, Indonesia. A participatory workshop method called the Yonmenkaigi system method, originally developed in a local community in Japan, has the following main steps: carrying out SWOT analysis, completing a Yonmenkaigi Chart, debating between groups, and presenting the group action plan. A case study carried out in the Kemiren village, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in August 2009, demonstrates how residents who are interested in disaster mitigation and management in a local community can collaboratively develop an implementable action plan for Sand Mining Management of local community. Based on the above case study, this paper categorically itemizes and formalizes two types of knowledge development needed for introducing the Yonmenkaigi system method to the cases in Indonesia. The first type of knowledge development is that type of knowledge which is generated as an outcome through the process of implementing a whole set of the Yonmenkaigi system. The second type is shown to be modeled as mutual knowledge development between “seed knowledge providers” and “custom knowledge providers”. Illustrations are made from the field work results and the two types of knowledge development have been specifically described and analyzed.
