Fact-finding During Quick Response to Disaster: School Students’ Response to the Environment

AbstractEarthquakes, floods, and landslides are frequent disasters in Indonesia. They can happen anytime. Recently Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering Universitas Indonesia, together with the Indonesian Red Cross in Bogor Regency and its volunteers squat (SIBAT) had conducted disaster role-playing as a preparedness program for elementary school students. The role-play was aimed to introduce a quick response for elementary school students by the time the disaster happened at their school. Two kinds of disasters were chosen based on the school location's characteristics: flooding and earthquake. The method involved in this study is action-research. In the end, the students were asked to draw their spatial experience in one piece of paper as a reflection. Additionally, the team also gave feedback questions or quiz to measure the starting point of the role-playing which expected to shape their new knowledge. For in-depth aspects, the students also received a badge as the inauguration sign of “Agent of responsive to disaster”. This paper outlines the fact-finding during the role-playing as the students' response to the environment. The findings are useful as the baseline for a disaster quick response preparedness module for elementary students' development.