Exploring School Preparedness to Develop Safe School in Disaster-prone Areas

Abstract

Schools become one of the public facilities that are vulnerable to disasters. Damage school facilities can cause the future of the young generation to be threatened. Schools in disaster-prone areas must have preparedness in coping disasters so children will safe and comfortable while in school. This research is a mixed research, with principals and teacher as respondents. Data collection techniques using questionnaires, interviews, and documentation. The variables used to measure school preparedness are policies, emergency response plans, disaster warnings, and resource mobilization. The results of the study indicate that the preparedness of schools to realize safe schools has an unprepared index, with a value of 50.8. Aspects that need to be improved to develop safe schools include the presence of emergency response plans, disaster warnings, and resource mobilization. Schools still very limited in providing disaster warning systems and disaster training, so they must prepare policies, infrastructure, and suprastructure of disasters.