Resilience of Tsunami Widow after 10 Years Tsunami in Banda Aceh

The tsunami is an extraordinary event that has a negative impact on a family that causes the loss of family members, one of which is a widow. The tsunami widow suddenly lost her husband and children and had to live her future life as a single parent with challenges. Resilience is needed by tsunami widows to be able to survive and be able to recover from a not good situation. Resilience is the ability of individuals to survive, remain stable and psychologically healthy after going through a traumatic event. The purpose of this study to determine how the resilience of widows who lost her husband caused by tsunami after ten years in Banda Aceh. This study used a qualitative method with phenomenological approach. Respondents in this study were three widows who are in middle adult age range (40-65 years) in Banda Aceh who have responsibility to their family. In this study, the technique of taking respondents with purposive sampling. The data collection used a interview and observation methods. The result showed that two resilient widows had hardiness, self-enhancement, and able to overcome the problem through emotion-coping. Another result showed that one of a widow has no resilience, because the respondent did not feel the better life after 10 years tsunami than before tsunami. In addition, due to the declining of health condition caused respondent did not feel the lesson learned after tsunami.