Conventional Disaster Management: Issues and Challenges towards Muslims
Journal Title: International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
This paper aims to identify the concept and strategy of conventional disaster management and to analyze the issues and challenges towards Muslims. Conventional disaster management is a management concept that is dominant nowadays. It has been applied and implemented by several countries including Malaysia when disasters struck. Despite of the various action plans and strategies of coordination for national disaster management system, the disaster continually hit especially heavy floods in 2014 and earthquake in 2015 that were deemed as most horrific disasters. Implementation of the existing management cannot curb the problems that arise in those catastrophes. More worrying, the conventional management applied to manage the disaster’s victims majorly are for Muslims. Hence, the problems are what are the concepts and strategies in conventional disaster management? What are the issues and challenges in conventional management towards Muslims? Thus, twofold of main objectives are prepared to answer these questions. First, identifying the concept of conventional disaster management. Second, to analyze the issues and challenges to the implementation of conventional disaster management towards Muslims. This study utilizing qualitative design by exploration method. Then, the library research method used as a method of data collection. The data collected has been analyzed using content analysis data. Results from this study identified two categories of conventional disaster management. Also, it can be identified the seven critical issues in this study. This study is regarded necessary for Islamic disaster management to refill the needs of Muslim community.
Authors and Affiliations
Siti Nur Syafiqah Saibi, Wan Khairul Aiman Wan Mokhtar
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