Academics The Value Of Disaster Awareness Must Continue To Be Developed

Dr. Indra Permanajati/Photo: Antara

PURWOKERTO - Academician from Jenderal Sudirman University (Unsoed) Dr. Indra Permanajati reminded that disaster awareness must continue to be developed in the community to support disaster mitigation programs. The coordinator for geology at the Unsoed Mitigation Center (Pusmit) explained that the awareness of disaster aims to increase the community's ability to play an active role in disaster risk reduction efforts and save themselves from disaster events. This attitude also encourages the necessary preparedness when a disaster occurs, so it is hoped that the community will have the right and standard way to save themselves," he said, quoted by Antara. make sure everyone is able to carry out self-protection. "For people who are elderly or children, it must also be prepared who will help in the event of a disaster. The ability in preparedness is a very effective mitigation but has a big influence on the success in carrying out disaster risk reduction efforts," he said.

He also added that what needs to be paid attention to is how to encourage people to be aware of potential disasters and efforts to prevent them. and efforts to prevent it," he said. He gave an example of attitudes that need to be developed, namely not littering, not cutting down trees carelessly, not building houses in landslide-prone areas. This needs to be maximized. Our attitudes, which sometimes ignore danger, should be reduced or avoided," he said. According to him, if each individual develops a disaster awareness attitude, it will become a culture and lifestyle in the community. efforts that need to be made by the government to foster an attitude of If there is a disaster, it is necessary to carry out intensive socialization and it is also necessary to provide examples of events that have occurred before, so that people believe and in the end grow an attitude of disaster awareness," he said.