The analysis of landslide preparedness on senior high school students in karanganyar regency, central java

Abstract

Preparedness is a part of the disaster management process. It is closely related to the risks emerged by disasters. Landslide is a routine disaster which always occurs every year in Karanganyar. The research is set to determine the preparedness of landslide of Senior High School students in Karanganyar. It is descriptive qualitative research using survey method in collecting data. The results reveal that the percentage of students who have good preparedness in facing landslide is still very low. It can be seen from the percentage, 25.5% of students are less ready and 21.8% of them are even not ready. Conversely, 3% of students are very ready and 18.8 of them are ready, while 30.8% of other students are almost ready. This case shows that the capacity of Senior High School students in Karangnyar is still very low in facing landslide which occurs almost every year in Karanganyar.