International Conference on Economic Stress, Human Capital, and Families in Asia: Research and Policy Challenges 3ど4 June 2010, Singapore Draft Copy – Not to be Quoted Without Permission from the Authors. 1 Displacement and Changing Gender and Intergenerational Relations: Experience of Hot Mudflow Affected Families in East Java, Indonesia Achmad Uzair Fauzan Department of Research and Networking, Lafadl Initiatives Association, Indonesia Bosman Batubara Lafadl Initiatives Association, Indonesia bosman2000id@yahoo.com ABSTRACT Mud volcano eruption in Porong, East Java, Indonesia in May 2006 has forced more than 50,000 people to migrate. It has invited debates among scientists in term of the nature of disasters (natural vs. unnatural); its environmental, social, and economical effects; and socialどpolitical management of the disaster. This paper analyzes the impacts of Lapindo hot mudflow disaster to people’s welfare dynamics at household level. It outlines the impacts on mudどdriven displacement, livelihood, gender relations and intergenerational relations among the Kedungbendo villagers who lose their houses and not yet capable to buy a new one. Many of them are now living in one single roof by merging the former households or are now living with their relaitives. Women are generally able to adapt themselves to new social environment, since there are more informal or communal women meetings. Among the mud affected households gender several new pattern of gender relations are emerged, including double burden for women. Loss of livelihood and shrinking of space indeed, have contributed to the making of new intergenerational problems. Those problems could be divided into two: between adults and between adult and children. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Achmad Uzair Fauzan is the head of Research and Networking department at Lafadl Initiatives Association. He was the leading researcher for this research project. Bosman Batubara graduated form Geological Engineering, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia in October 2005. Shortly after, he joined as exploration geologist with PT. Kaltim Prima Coal. Currently, he is a partどtime researcher and community organizer at Lafadl Initiatives Association, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Field work for this paper was conducted in Porong, East Java, Indonesia by Lafadl Initiatives team (Coordinator: Achmad Uzair; researchers: Heru Prasetia, Bosman Batubara, and Yoseph Christophorus Kelik Prirahayanto; field assistans: Paring Waluyo Utomo and Cristiano Nizar) under the auspices of International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD) for travel scholarship to present the poster in Adelaide on July 2009.