Digital Literacy Empowerment for West Java Local Media in Disaster Mitigation
Septiawan Santana Kurnia, Dadi Ahmadi, Satya Indra Karsa, Firmansyah, Doddy Iskandar

Universitas Islam Bandung
Jl. Tamansari No. 20, 40116 Bandung

Abstract

Disaster is a priority in Indonesia. As one of the disaster-prone areas, Indonesia requires disaster preparedness. In disaster mitigation, journalists need education in using technology and wisely in using digital media. For this reason, the community service program ^Digital Literacy Empowerment for West Java Regional Local Media in Disaster Mitigation^ is directed at journalists. In this program, the participants of the training on disaster coverage are journalists in the West Java region who are members of journalism organizations. The goal is that journalists in the regions have the knowledge and understanding to utilize technology and transform to digital in order to mitigate disaster.
In this Community Service program, training provided by Fikom Unisba academics is provided. Training in the form of using technology in disaster reporting, training on news reporting with digital technology, to training on how to do coverage aimed at disaster mitigation. In addition to training from digital technology practitioners, briefing on digital literacy understanding in disaster reporting is also provided based on disaster mitigation provided by academics.
The method of this activity is carried out by means of training and counseling accompanied by interactive dialogue and sharing that encourages participants to be creative, innovative, participatory, and to build collaboration and work. Participants who are known in the process of designing disaster mitigation education journalism.
The results of this activity indicate changes in participants, especially increasing knowledge and ability to carry out disaster mitigation news coverage in terms of: Themes, Topics, Research, Resource Persons, Documents/Data, and Covering Techniques.

Keywords: Journalist, Mitigation, Disaster

Topic: Media, Journalism, and Information