Does Educational Disaster Mitigation Need To Be Introduced In School?

Master Program of Geography Education, Post Graduate School of Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Bandung

Abstract

Indonesia is an archipelagic country in subduction of three global plates namely Eurasia, Pacific and Indo-Australia. Make it has many active volcanoes and mountain morphology that are prone to earthquakes, tsunamis and landslides. In astronomical location Indonesia is a country in tropical latitude with high rainfall and irradiation. Makes it vulnerable to atmospheric and hydrosphere disasters such as drought, tropical storms and floods. Also has multicultural population that makes it vulnerable to social conflict. Various factors indicate that Indonesia is a country prone to various disasters. Need disaster mitigation socialization efforts early on. This study describe the need to introduce disaster mitigation education as one of the efforts of disaster risk reduction in schools to students. This study uses literature study method by collecting various written references from books and publications of research results. Use descriftive analysis tecnique for process data. The results show that disaster mitigation education needs to be introduced at the level of schooling in Indonesia. As one of the efforts to prepare the people of Indonesia disaster preparedness. Disaster mitigation education should be included in the curriculum of education, especially on subjects that have a correlation therein.