Task: Issue tsunami

The Issue: TSUNAMI Discember 26,2006

Tsunami is the one phenomenon that gives much impact to the country. Impact that happened from this phenomenon gave a big influence to the country and society. This phenomenon gave a lot of negative impact whether to the personal or public that related to the society of the country.

Identity of change

1. The victim of the Tsunami

People who affected due to the tragedy. Who lost their asset, and also family members.

Example in Penang there a one family lost their six members of family because of the tragedy. The tragedy have made a huge impact in their life.

2. The place that affected with the Tsunami

Place which affected by the tragedy. It makes their economy down and also many people suffer with illness, lost their home and many more.

Example place like Aceh Indonesia. Almost all of their place had been destroyed by the tragedy, these make their economic situation turn down because all the places had gone. A lot of people in Aceh lost their home and jobs. Their economic also paralyzed.

3. Tourism sector of those country that affected

The tourism sector of some country been affected by the tragedy. This situation have made some of the social structure changed because they need to find another job rather than relying on the tourism sector.

Example people who involve in water sports business in Phuket Thailand. They have to change their business due on the lack of tourist that comes.

Level of Change

It can be said that tsunami had given an impact to every level of society who have become the victim of the tragedy.Every single victim is the people who are affected due to the tragedy. It also can be said that it even effected the people who are not the victim but someone who is connected to the victim such as family and relatives. We believe the tragedy has effected every level of society including the administrator since the economy of the country also had been effected.

Duration of Change

Long: Starting from the date of tsunami, there are a lot of change in affected country like, Thailand, Colombia, Acheh and others. For example, until now, Acheh can not be fully developed although the tragedy was happened last 3 years. The aspect of affected is:

Lifestyle

= the no of death and a lot of people lost family members

= 11% children affected and 13% was displaced in camps

Ecosystem

= village totally destroyed and at the same time the building also destroyed

Economy

= the victims have no sources of income

= totally depends on foreign aid like MERCY, AMAN MALAYSIA and any other agency all over the world

Health

= children was affected by the symptoms and viruses that was brought due to the tragedy

Education

= loss the sources of financial and place to have education

= number of teachers died and those who survived left the island due to pressure from government

Magnitude of Change

Revolutionary – unplanned because of natural disaster

Affected towards society, for example: in Penang, a family was lost 8 children due to the tragedy while having a holiday there. Changes in family institution drastically.

Rate of Change

Continuous = trauma

-victims still have that kind of trauma about sea or other related matter

- then, government and the aid agency provide psychological treatments to cope with the tragic situation as lost the family members, property and their live.

Sources or variables of change

Technology

As we know, no one had notice about tsunami because it was rear to be heard of. After the incident happened on Dec 2004, then the government starts to play their role in order for them to prevent the tsunami from happen again. Therefore, the government had taken the first step that is the use of Buoys for tsunami or had been known as ‘’National Tsunami Warning System’’ to avoid the incident. It had been placed at Andaman Island Water Waste (Perairan Pulau Andaman) to detect any possibility of Tsunami to be happening again. National Tsunami Warning System that belong to the country equivalent with the system of Ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) that had been placed at Pacific Ocean to make sure Hawaii Island get the Tsunamis warning. It is to confirm the existence of tsunami generated by undersea earthquakes. These buoys observe and record changes in sea level out in the deep ocean. This enhances the capability for early detection and real time reporting of tsunami before they reach land. Before this, our country does not have the technology to detect the Tsunami, but now we have it to prevent the incident from being happened again.Readiness of plans, methods, procedures and actions taken by government officials and the general public for the purpose of minimizing potential risk and mitigating the effects of future tsunamis. The appropriate preparedness for a warning of impending danger from a tsunami requires knowledge of areas that could be flooded (tsunami inundation maps) and knowledge of the warning system to know when to evacuate and when it is safe to return.

Economy

From the economic perspective, it relates to the damaged of the infrastructure which is:

- Trade sector and facilities

Examples: Market as a place that can developed business process .It give influenced for the smooth business activities.

- Agriculture

Examples: Farm and Land destroyed and give a bad effect whereby loss of resources in producing agriculture product of the country.

According to these factors, indirectly these can lead to the problem in term of investment in that country. The investors become loss of confidence to invest capital in that particular country. They think that country did not have better potential for strong investment growth. Furthermore, it also increases the burden of government in order to spend a lot of fund to improve all part of every sector. It is over the actual estimation that was stated for that country.

As example: Asian Development Bank (ADB) estimated RM2 million Asian people live in poverty which is affected from destruction faced during Tsunami phenomenon. Indonesia is the country that had serious negative effect with had over 106,000 deaths of people. It will see 1,000 000 citizen facing the poverty problem.