Student Preparedness in Forest Fire Disasters

A questionnaire was used for data collection from Sopaheluwakan (2006 ) in Table 3, which contains research instruments designed according to field conditions related to student preparedness in dealing with forest fire disasters. The questionnaires were distributed to 300 students from three universities in West Kalimantan province, Indonesia. This study adopted a purposive sampling technique in selecting respondents. Students, who were the overall research subjects, also experienced the impact of the forest and land fires, which can be seen in Figure 1.
The questionnaire used in this study consisted of two variables: disaster preparedness and disaster knowledge. The first variable is based on preparedness parameters from (Sopaheluwakan, 2006 ), with four preparedness parameters, namely knowledge and attitudes, with ten questions. The second parameter is an emergency response plan with four questions. The third parameter, namely the early warning system, has eight questions, and the last is resource mobilisation, with three questions shown in Table 4.
Meanwhile, the disaster knowledge parameter for students has ten questions, of which the indicators are disaster prediction, disaster prevention, disaster preparedness and training, mandatory disaster education, and various types of disasters (natural, social, and non-natural); each has two questions as seen in Table 3.
As a mean to the number of questions in this research, the questionnaire is 35 questions to explore preparedness and knowledge data from students in disaster-prone areas.