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Many regions in Java are prone to landslide disaster which cause severe impacts on environment, infrastructure and community. The most severe impact is felt by rural community since their livelihood mostly come by cultivating land that located in landslide prone area.. Strategies and proper methods need to be implemented to reduce landslide risk and accelerate recovery after landslide disaster. This research aims to assess resilience of local community to landslide hazard in rural watershed. This research is located in Kayangan watershed which is one of the landslide prone areas in Kulonprogo Regency. Research data was collected by field surveying and in depth interviewing with local communities. Random sampling method was applied to determine the data samples. Resilience to landslide disaster was assessed by several parameters: knowledge about landslide disaster, landslide risk reduction efforts and efforts to accelerate post-landslide recovery. Result showed that generally local communities have been being aware that they live in landslide prone area . Moreover, disaster resilient community has been established in several villages to reduce disaster risk, by preserving local wisdom value. One of the disaster risk reduction action, particularly emergency response to landslide hazard is called “Gotong royong”. Thereupon the whole rural community empowerment in disaster needs to be improved to achieve landslide disaster resilience.