Resilience Measurement of SMEs Batik Sampang in Dealing with Natural Disasters

. Sampang Regency is one of regions in East Java affected by flood every year. This causes disruption to the economic system of the community, especially for SMEs. Batik is a potential creative industry whose production processes are influenced by weather and climate. The quality of colouring and drying of batik depends on the brightness of the sun and the humidity around the production area. Therefore, this study aims to measure the level of resilience of Batik SMEs so that it can provide information to SMEs managers in planning flood disaster mitigation and extreme weather in batik production and marketing process. The dimensions of resilience of SMEs were identified from literature studies which were then grouped based on eight social-technical aspects. Data were collected using a semi-structure questionnaire. The questionnaire was validated by three disaster experts in SMEs. Respondents in this study were ten batik SMEs in Sampang Regency. Resilience levels were measured by adopting risk assessment measurements with multiplication between the probability and capacity of SMEs in the dealing with natural disasters. The measurement of resilience was used to formulate mitigation efforts that are expected to aid SMEs and the Government in dealing with natural disasters.