Children Among the Natural Hazards and Covid-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

Abstract

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, something that has escaped the public attention is the high level of natural disaster threats in Indonesia. If this condition is left unattended, the whole situation in Indonesia will become even more complex and will do harm to the children. Through the perspective of post-developmentalism, the researcher believes that children are able to be included in multi-hazards natural disaster risk mitigation. This research uses meta-analysis to examine several research results that identify the children’s participation during multi-hazards disasters and pandemic situations. The result finds that even during multi-hazards disasters and pandemic situations, children should be given opportunities to participate in the disaster mitigation as a preventive measure. Therefore, children’s resilience would increase and become a reducing factor that may lower the disaster risks in Indonesia.