ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the role of visual and other media in rethinking urban and semi-rural life and infrastructure during the dramatic circumstances of disaster. It deals with the role of community-based art and media, community radio, popular theatre, performance art and community video, in disaster relief and community resilience in the aftermath of the May 2006 earthquake in Yogyakarta Province. The chapter discusses mainstream forms of jurnalisme bencana or 'disaster journalism' have been lacking in practical approaches to disaster victims, and largely failed to provide a constructive contribution to disaster relief and community resilience. It shows how alternative forms of art and media have succeeded in meeting the standards of good practice as formulated by Indonesian critics of mainstream disaster journalism. My examples of Indonesian community radio, popular theatre, performance art and community video illustrate the positive contribution that information and communication media of either a journalistic or an artistic character can make to disaster relief and community resilience.
