Socio-Ecological Vulnerability and Participatory Governance in Flood Contingency Planning: A Person-in-Environment Analysis of Labansari Village, Bekasi, Indonesia

• Ade Subarkah

  Politeknik Kesejahteraan Sosial Bandung

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  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0194-3520

Recurrent flooding in Indonesia’s urban-fringe areas presents not only an environmental hazard but a profound social work concern rooted in structural inequality and exclusionary governance. This study examines socio-ecological vulnerability and participatory governance in flood contingency planning through a Person-in-Environment (PIE) analysis of Labansari Village, Bekasi Regency. Employing a qualitative case study grounded in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), data were generated through focus group discussions, semi-structured interviews, participatory mapping, document analysis, and observation involving community members, local leaders, government officials, and civil society actors. Findings reveal differentiated vulnerabilities across micro, mezzo, and macro levels. At the household level, flooding produces severe income loss, housing precarity, and cumulative psychosocial distress, disproportionately affecting women, informal workers, and children. At the community level, gotong royong sustains emergency coping yet is undermined by disaster fatigue, gendered care burdens, and declining collective efficacy. At the institutional level, weak spatial planning enforcement, inequitable resource allocation, and tokenistic participation perpetuate distributive, procedural, and recognition injustices. The study argues that conventional technocratic contingency planning fails to address these multi-level dynamics. It proposes a justice-oriented framework integrating environmental justice, indigenous knowledge, and multi-level participatory governance to advance community-centered flood risk reduction. The findings extend PIE applications in disaster research and underscore social work’s ethical responsibility to support community agency, address structural vulnerability, and advocate for inclusive disaster governance in climate-affected peri-urban contexts.

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