Community Preparedness and Village Resilience Toward the Threat of Natural Disasters in Small Island: Evidence-Based Study in Lombok, Indonesia

Indonesia is a country at high risk from the threat of disasters. In the context of social protection, The World Risk Index places Indonesia high in the list of vulnerable countries in need of action to increase the resilience to natural disasters. This research was carried out first to determine the factors influencing people's knowledge of disasters and how to save themselves and their families when a disaster occurs, and second to analyze resilience toward hazardous threats based on experiences two villages in Lombok, a small island that is part of the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia, known as Lombok Small Island-Indonesia. For this research, quantitative descriptive surveys were conducted with 160 respondents. Using indicators from the National Disaster Management Board, a nationwide institution, which sets standards for disaster response management to determine the level of village resilience, the study concludes that education level positively affects community preparedness. At the same time, the level of village resilience in both villages of the research field can be considered high and moderate. Based on this assessment, it is recommended that the various existing programs concerning disaster risk reduction be continued and improved. In addition, natural disaster volunteer groups that have been formed in the community need to be activated with various designed activities.