Building Regional Resilience through Disaster Education and Community Engagement

Abstract

Awareness of the geographical area of Indonesia as a region with a lot of tectonic activity, it is necessary to realize the potential for various types of disasters to recur. Therefore, comprehensive disaster management (natural and non-natural) is increasingly important to implement. The scope of disaster management has actually been embedded in Law No. 24 of 2007 concerning Disaster Management which includes pre-disaster, during disaster, and post-disaster. In order for its management to be more successful in reducing disaster risk, it is necessary to raise awareness of the disaster-aware community in each region. Because of the importance of disaster-aware community awareness, it is specifically the government's task to provide knowledge, education, understanding and disaster preparedness skills.