Actors’ Collaboration to Manage Disasters in Cilacap District Central Java Province Indonesia

The province of Central Java has areas spreading to 35 Districts/Cities, of those Districts/Cities, there is an area which based on Indonesia’s Disaster Risk Index (IRBI) year 2016 has a quite high risk index, that is Cilacap District which occupies the 17th position nationally and first number for the position of 35 Districts/Cities located in Central Java within score number 132 (categorized as highly vulnerable class). Risk disasters occur in Cilacap District covering earthquake, tsunami, flood, landslide, tidewater, whirlwind and drought. Within such conditions, it is needed some actors’ collaborations to manage disaster that can hit the Cilacap District at any time. This research aims to describe actors’ collaboration to implement disaster management in Cilacap District Central Java Province. Research method which was used was a qualitative method by seeing the phenomena of actors’ collaboration to implement disaster management. Result of the research shows that from the mapping of actors can be seen that there are a core actor and supporting actors in the process of implementation of disaster management in Cilacap District. Then, the actors involved in the operation do collaboration by means of communication, coordination, and cooperation under the control of Regional Disaster Management Agency (BPBD) as the leading sector.