Table Top Disaster Simulation to Enhance Community Knowledge of Flood Disaster Preparedness in Musi Rawas Regency
Jhon Feri, Susmini Susmini, Sapondra Wijaya · Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research/Advances in social science, education and humanities research · 2021
As a high risk disasters country, Indonesia should have good strength in dealing with disasters, including community preparedness.The current condition of knowledge responding to disasters is not good.Continuous program are needed to prepare the community, One of the program is education and simulation.Table Top Disaster Simulation is one type of room simulation commonly used for a sequence of increasing community strength.This research aims was To determine the effect of the Table Top Disaster Simulation on the knowledge of MusiRawas community in responding the flood disaster The Methods was a Quantitative research with a quasi-experimental design with a pre and post test design approach.Data were collected using a questionnaire before and after the room simulation with the Table Top Disaster Simulation Model.Data were analyzed statistically by paired t-test.Result: This research covers 2 (two) Districts in MusiRawas Regency which every year floods occur with 100 sample.The t-test result is p = 0,000 After being given education and room simulations using the Table Top Disaster Simulation Model there was an increase in knowledge about how people respond to a risk of disaster occurrence.This increase must be maintained so as not to decrease again