Students Perception Toward Their Preparedness for Volcanic Eruption Disaster

Abstract

This research aimed to know what knowledge do students have and how do student perceive their preparedness for disaster risk reduction. This research was descriptive research. The sample were 90 first grade students of SMP N 2 Cangkringan, selected by purposive random sampling. The instruments were questionnaire of students' preparedness to volcanic eruption disaster. By the empirical validation, the instrument meet the fit validity and high reliability value. The results show that students perception toward their preparedness for volcanic eruption disaster, for the student's knowledge and attitude towards disaster risk they meet very good criteria with value of 3,28. Student's knowledge and attitude towards early warning system meet the criteria good with value of 3,08. The aspects of student's knowledge and attitude towards plans for disaster emergency meet value of 2,98 with the criteria good. Meanwhile, the aspects of student's knowledge and attitude towards resource mobilization meet value of 2,88 with criteria good. They still need many improvement because there are many indicators that meet low or very low, considering they are located in disaster prone areas that very close to the volcanoes, they should have very good disaster preparedness in all aspects.