AKSIANA: A LEARNING MODEL OF DISASTER MITIGATION (FLOOD) AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION ON INDONESIAN EDUCATION

Indonesia is a country that located between four active plates, the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Pacific, and the Philippines. Those plates have made Indonesia as one of the most common countries with naturaldisasters. Floods have been a disaster with the highest percentage in Indonesia. Flood even...

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Main Authors: Thabrani, Riksa, Al Haqiqi, Jundiya, Kurniasih, Anis
Format: Article PeerReviewed
Language:English
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://repository.ugm.ac.id/274127/1/PHT-09.pdf
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Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada
Language: English
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Summary:Indonesia is a country that located between four active plates, the Eurasian, Indo-Australian, Pacific, and the Philippines. Those plates have made Indonesia as one of the most common countries with naturaldisasters. Floods have been a disaster with the highest percentage in Indonesia. Flood eventsis difficult to be prevented, but it’s impact can be controlled and reduced. In general, Indonesian society lack of knowledge of disaster, so when natural disasters occurred, people tend to not wellprepared and don’t understand about steps that have to do.Moreover, the number of victims is still relatively children and due to lack of socialization about disaster mitigation over children. This study based on the observation and questionnaires to determine the need for the Indonesian people about the disaster mitigation as early as possible. Flood frequently becomes a disaster and problem every single year. The problem faced is the responsibility of all elements. Besides caused by nature, floods also occurred due to human reckless to the environment. The negative impact of floods become larger due to lack of public understanding of the disaster mitigation. It occurs primarily among children, theyoften become the main victims of the flood disaster. Therefore, the Indonesian children should be instilled early on disaster awareness, the provision of understanding of disaster mitigation is possible to do through the education. Keywords:hazard mitigation, floods, children, education