The Exploration of History, Potential and Management of Earthquake in the Context of Mapping and Empowerment of Learning Community

Abstract

—One of frequent natural disasters in Lampung Province is earthquake. This natural disaster often cause loss for public, both properties and life. The earthquake threat shall be worse when people are unable to deal with. The perspective of earthquake disaster from form benefit point of view can bring a new paradigm toward the disaster threat into positive. The change of perspective of the earthquake threat can be a new opportunity for people to use the nature into capitals for effective regional development. The objectives of this research were to describe history, fact, potential, and disaster management model, especially earthquake disaster in Lampung Barat district. Outputs to reach in this research were 1) scientific publication in an international reputation journal and/or in an accredited national journal; 2) a text book concerning natural disaster as a supplement for teachers and a student’s book for junior and senior high school that would be published by a national reputation publisher and distributed nationally; 3) to produce another output in form of intellectual property right in the education engineering. This research used qualitative and quantitative method (mixed method approach) that combined qualitative and quantitative data collections and analyses in a single research. There were four main types of designs of the mixed method; explanatory, exploratory, embedded, and triangulation. The research result showed that the earthquake disasters occurred in Liwa in 1908, 1933, 1994, and 23 August 2018. Most of people (95%) did not understand the standard of operation procedure for natural disaster. 56% people always worried about earthquake, despite that learning about earthquake was very important. A model of learning community was developed by involving stakeholders, especially parents as the members of school committee. Parents would be a vital part in determining success of school program in building students with characters to have resilience.