Fostering disaster preparedness school as an effort to build disaster preparedness

Abstract Indonesia is a disaster-prone area, because it is important to create preparedness in the school community. One of the comprehensive effort to strengthen disaster preparedness through disaster preparedness school fostering. This study aims to find out the implementation of disaster preparedness school fostering at school’s communities. The method used was a survey of twelve schools in Banda Aceh City, with respondents consisting of education personnels, teachers, and students. The results showed that (1) disaster preparedness school fostering programme categorized less implemented (2) the level of preparedness in disaster preparedness school community categorized as high preparedness. (3) factors that influence the implementation of disaster preparedness school fostering (a) school commitment and (b) support from the government. The fostering activity that has not been done properly i.e exercises simulating disaster, workshop/seminar disaster at school. In addition to fostering in disaster preparedness schools, preparedness participates by the experience of individuals in dealing with disasters.