Disaster Logistics Governance for Strengthening Local Resilience: Evidence from Indonesia

Abstract

This research aims to analyse the application of collaborative governance to disaster logistics governance in Lumajang District, Indonesia, using Howden's disaster phase approach as an analytical framework. The main focus is on the extent to which cross-sector actors are involved in planning, implementing, and evaluating disaster logistics management in a deliberative manner to promote sustainable local resilience. This study adopts a mixed approach, combining post-positivist and constructivist paradigms, with data collection techniques including in-depth interviews, participatory observation, and policy document analysis. The theoretical framework is based on Ansell and Gash's collaborative governance model, combined with a thematic analysis of logistics governance practices across each disaster phase preparedness, response, transition, recovery, and mitigation. The findings show that collaboration among actors in disaster logistics governance in Lumajang District remains sectoral, fragmented, and predominantly controlled by state actors. Most disaster logistics tend to be managed only during the response phase; they are reactive and not institutionalised across other phases. This research makes a conceptual contribution by proposing the integration of a collaborative governance framework into disaster logistics governance across all phases. The findings allow for a more in-depth evaluation of power relations, collaborative capacities, and forms of participatory exclusion that are often hidden within local disaster management practices. The implication is to promote the reform of disaster logistics governance through collaboration, with an emphasis on community-based logistics systems and a regulatory framework that affirms the role of the community as the primary actor in all phases of disaster management.