2019 03 13 Interview Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for interviews with local leaders in Semarang, Indonesia regarding community adaptation to flood risk and land subsidence. The interview will take 1 to 1.5 hours and cover topics like the leader's background and role, institutional arrangements, challenges faced, community characteristics, networks, and relationships with external stakeholders and government. The goal is to understand the leader's perspective on facilitating adaptation at the local level.

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2019 03 13 Interview Guidelines

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2019

Interview Guidelines
Joint Research Project Diponegoro University, Semarang and University of Cologne,
Germany: Local leadership and community adaptation in the context of flood risk and
land subsidence in coastal Semarang, Indonesia

Introduction

Thank you for taking the time to participate in this study. It is a collaboration between
Diponegoro University and the University of Cologne, Germany. Our goal is to better
understand the role of local leaders like you in the context of community adaptation to flood
risk and land subsidence. We are especially interested in the ways and possibilities local
leaders have to engage with their communities. The interview will take approximately one
hour to 90 minutes.

With your permission, we would like to audio record this interview to facilitate the subsequent
analysis. Everything said during the interview will be handled anonymously.

Note to interviewers: Make sure all important information is covered in the interview and keep
asking follow-up questions if important information is missing.

Block 1: General Information about the Interviewee / Personal traits and ability
(psychological traits, skills, personal backgrounds which contribute to a distinctive leadership
style)

Important information: Age, time in village, place of birth (migration history?), time in office,
educational, occupational and political background, religion, ethnic group

Questions:

- Can you give us a short introduction of yourself and your background?

- What are your main tasks?
o Do you delegate some of your tasks?
o To what extend do you share your power with other members of the
community?
- How long have you been in office?
- What was your motivation to assume your office?
- What did you do before you assumed your position?
o Do you do other work?
- What would you say characterizes your leadership style?
- Does your background help you with your leadership position?

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- What is your vision for your community?

Block 2: Institutional arrangement

Important information: formal and informal structures for acquiring formal power, identity and
authority; i.e. vision sharing, power division, commitment, trust, organizational structure and
communication process

Questions:

- What requirements does someone have to meet to get your position?

- Which factors / circumstances helped you to assume your office?
- Do you know many people that occupy the same or a higher/lower formal position as
you?
o How important is it for you to connect and collaborate with them?
- Are there challenges or obstacles you have experienced concerning authorities or
other institutions?

Block 3: Community and local leader activity

Important information: personal and communal experience with floods and land subsidence,
risk perception / environmental awareness, collaboration, social learning, networking,
mediation, dialogue, relationship to other tiers of government, practices that facilitate
knowledge sharing, joint learning, and co-creation of experiences between stakeholders
around a shared purpose

Questions:

- What are the biggest problems / challenges in your community?

o How do you tackle them?
o Do you get help from other tiers of government or other organizations?
- What is your experience with floods and land subsidence in this area?
o How bad do you think the problem is?
o What activities do you follow to prevent flooding?
o Where do you get new ideas / innovations from?
o How do you fund projects?
o Do you share your knowledge and expertise with your own and other
communities?

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Block 4: Internal factors (specific characteristics that are particular to the area)

Important information: culture, social customs, characteristics of the communities /

neighborhoods

Questions:

- How often do you meet with people from your community?

o What topics are usually discussed?
o How do you reach decisions?
- How would you characterize your community?
o How would you describe the relationship among the people in your
community?
o What is the degree of participation, trust and inclusiveness?
o What role do the people in your community play in adapting to flood and land
subsidence?
 Is the whole community involved? Do you think some households can
not be reached by your work?
o How does the local culture and the social customs influence your work in the
community and in reaching adaptation goals?
 What role do religious or political activities play in your community?

Block 5: External connections / networks (information on how the local leader connects
his community to other communities and stakeholders)

Important information: connections to other stakeholders outside of the own community,

collaboration, projects

- How do you establish connections with other actors / communities?

- How often do you meet with people from outside your community? Who are they?
- Are you in contact with people in the same position as you but from other RTs, RWs,
Kelurahans, Kecamatans?
o What are you meeting for?
o How often?
o Which topics are discussed?
- Do you have contacts to political official/parties, Universities, NGOs other
stakeholders?
o What are you meeting for?
o How often?
o Which topics are discussed?
- Whom would you contact if you need advice / information on the following issues?
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o Flooding, subsidence
o Elevation
o Legal issues
o Financing and funding
o Etc.
- Did you initiate any projects or cooperation’s which involve stakeholder from outside
your community? (i.e. Initiatives with external (co-)financing, or with the participation
of NGOs, or with the help of university expertise)
o If yes, please elaborate.

Block 5: External factors (broad context within which local leadership is exercised)

Important information: economy, policy, political situation

Questions:

- How would you characterize your relationship with the local government in
Semarang?
- What responsibilities do higher tiers of government have with respect to risk
adaptation?
- How responsive and supportive is the local government of community-level action?
o Where do you see room for improvement?
- What are some economic challenges that you have to face in your position?
o Do you get paid for your services to the community?
- Do you think the upcoming elections will have an impact on your work?

Conclusion of the Interview

Thank you very much for taking the time to participate in this interview. We appreciate your
help in making this study possible. Before we conclude this interview, is there anything else
you would like to add that we have not asked, or do you have questions for us?