Local Wisdom Discourse in Disaster Mitigation of Mount Agung Eruption in Indonesian Literature

This research aims to identify local wisdom in natural disaster mitigation described in the novel entitled Underthe Eruption of Mount Agung by Djelantik Santha. This novel is the only Indonesian literary work that tellsthe mitigation of the 1963 eruption of Mount Agung in Karangasem Regency, Bali, Indonesia. The data in thisstudy were collected through reading, note-taking, and hermeneutic (interpretation) dialectical techniques. Thecollected data is then reduced and analyzed qualitatively using the sociology of literature and the theory ofsemiotics. The analysis found that the novel contains local Balinese wisdom, especially the local wisdom ofthe people of Selat Village, Karangasem Regency, Bali Province, regarding techniques for saving victims ofthe Mount Agung natural disaster. Local wisdom is depicted in the novel, such as togetherness and cooperationsystem, yadnya ceremony, megibung tradition, and Kulkul. This local wisdom has played a major role inminimizing the victims of the Mount Agung natural disaster in the past.