Living in Huntara during the Covid-19 Pandemic (Communication Ethnography of the PASIGALA Earthquake Victims Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic)

This research is motivated by the term waste and ba kojo as a communication event of the community living together at the Taipa Beach shelter due to the earthquake on September 28th, 2018, in Palu city. The purpose of this study is to describe and know in-depth the communication patterns between fellow disaster survivors and between disaster survivors and related parties, in this case, the Palu city government, both verbal and nonverbal. To achieve this goal, the researcher uses an ethnographic approach to communication through qualitative methods. Determination of informants as many as 14 (fourteen) people using purposive sampling. The instrument in this study used participant observation and non-participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. Technique analysis data using interactive model analysis data by Miles and Huberman with triangulating methods, the sources of data, and theories. The leading idea used as a reference in this study is the ethnography of communication by Hymes with combined of Berger’s approach in terms of social life and related to the dialectic of externalization, objectivation, and internalization. The results of this study reveal: (1) the communication patterns of fellow Taipa beach disaster survivors are influenced by the state of the environment where they live through transcendental communication. (2) The communication pattern of disaster survivors with related parties (government) has experienced many obstacles due to the relationship with bureaucratic communication patterns.