Disaster mitigation through comic moral dilemmas for elementary school students

Abstract

The number of casualties in the series of earthquakes so far shows that disaster mitigation is still in the weak category. Earthquake and tsunami experts from a number of countries appealed to Indonesia to learn from the recurring disasters that claimed thousands of lives. Given that Indonesia is prone to disasters, early disaster awareness education is needed to minimize the impact of disasters. Disaster management through disaster education and mitigation aimed at reducing disaster risk must become the main stream of development. The formal education sector is considered to be the most effective in dealing with the impact of disasters. One alternative to disaster awareness early education is to disseminate disaster mitigation. Overall, this research was conducted through a research and development method which was carried out in several stages, namely the exploration, formulation and examination stages and involved five elementary schools in West Java. The results showed that understanding of disaster mitigation through comics in elementary education students is one of the solutions that need to be done in Indonesia to create a disaster-resilient generation and with comics the students' understanding of disaster preparedness is getting better. Awareness of disaster mitigation education from an early age is a very positive effort to instill a spirit of preparedness and concern for potential disasters and efforts to overcome them for the younger generation of a nation to sustain a better future.