Investigating natural disaster literacy levels

Abstract

This research aims to determine the level of natural disaster literacy at the educational unit level, namely junior high school children. The data in this study, researchers adopted a survey design conducted on 364 children in West Java province, collected through a natural disaster literacy questionnaire. The criteria for natural disaster literacy are generally determined at high, medium, sufficient, low, and very low levels with literacy dimensions, namely knowledge, attitudes, and skills. As a result, it was determined that in general junior high school students' natural disaster literacy was at a high level in the knowledge dimension but was at a medium level in the behavioural dimension while the skills dimension was at a low level for each literacy component. It is recommended that disaster literacy become a habit that can be implemented in everyday life.