<![CDATA[This article examines how disaster reactivates kinship networks and shapes functionally extended family patterns among residents of Kampung Banjar, Mataram, following the 2018 Lombok earthquakes. Drawing on qualitative empirical research based on observation, semi-structured interviews, and documentation, the analysis traces relational changes before, during, and after the crisis. Kinship is treated as a social practice rather than merely a genealogical tie or a form of co-residence. The findings show that extended-family networks had not disappeared before the earthquakes, but in some families they operated with limited intensity. The disaster functioned as a disruptive moment that altered the relevance of these networks: relatives resumed searching for one another, communicating, gathering, circulating resources, and providing protection and care. These functions could be sustained even when family members continued to live in separate households, making the post-disaster pattern intelligible as a functionally extended family. Yet reactivation did not persist uniformly. In some families, intensified ties were largely situational and declined as everyday routines resumed; in others, crisis-generated practices became more enduring. The article argues that post-disaster family change is better understood through the renewed capacity of kinship networks to work than through household composition or emotional closeness alone across the longer recovery process.]]>
