TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring minimum essentials for sustainable school disaster preparedness
T2 - A case of elementary schools in Banda Aceh City, Indonesia
AU - Sakurai, A.
AU - Bisri, M. B.F.
AU - Oda, T.
AU - Oktari, R. S.
AU - Murayama, Y.
AU - Nizammudin,
AU - Affan, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - The study assesses the safety of school against tsunami disaster of public elementary schools in Banda Aceh City, Indonesia, in terms of safety of school location, disaster management and disaster education. The findings indicate that 56% of public elementary schools in Banda Aceh City are exposed to high tsunami risk, and most externally driven school disaster preparedness activities were not continued by the schools due to lack of ownership, institutional arrangement and funding. The study proposes the minimum essentials to reactivate school disaster preparedness activities and strongly recommends the local government's policy support for ensuring a city-wide, all-schools implementation. These essentials should include an annual school plan that involves conducting a tsunami evacuation drill at least once per year and a school budget for conducting disaster preparedness activities. To ensure smooth implementation, the Education Agency Circular Letter should provide justification for all headmasters to include these components in the schools’ annual plans. It also recommends that external parties who donate or provide physical equipment (e.g., tsunami evacuation routes or maps) should consider deliver and quality of the material to meet the national guidelines, as well as the recipient schools to be fully involved in equipment maintenance.
AB - The study assesses the safety of school against tsunami disaster of public elementary schools in Banda Aceh City, Indonesia, in terms of safety of school location, disaster management and disaster education. The findings indicate that 56% of public elementary schools in Banda Aceh City are exposed to high tsunami risk, and most externally driven school disaster preparedness activities were not continued by the schools due to lack of ownership, institutional arrangement and funding. The study proposes the minimum essentials to reactivate school disaster preparedness activities and strongly recommends the local government's policy support for ensuring a city-wide, all-schools implementation. These essentials should include an annual school plan that involves conducting a tsunami evacuation drill at least once per year and a school budget for conducting disaster preparedness activities. To ensure smooth implementation, the Education Agency Circular Letter should provide justification for all headmasters to include these components in the schools’ annual plans. It also recommends that external parties who donate or provide physical equipment (e.g., tsunami evacuation routes or maps) should consider deliver and quality of the material to meet the national guidelines, as well as the recipient schools to be fully involved in equipment maintenance.
KW - Comprehensive school safety
KW - Disaster preparedness
KW - Elementary schools in Banda Aceh
KW - External assistance
KW - Sustainability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.08.005
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.08.005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027562815
VL - 29
SP - 73
EP - 83
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
SN - 2212-4209
ER -