Factors Related to Community Preparedness in Dealing with a Mountain Disaster Erupting: A Literature Review

Abstract

Indonesia is an archipelagic country with the longest volcano in the world. Indonesia has 127 active volcanoes or about 13% of the world's active volcanoes in Indonesia. That makes this country has the largest number of volcanoes in the world. To prevent the occurrence of many casualties during a volcanic disaster, community preparedness is needed in dealing with disasters. Therefore, this study wants to know the factors related to community preparedness in dealing with volcanic eruption disasters based on a literature review. There are several search engines to find relevant journal articles, including Google Scholar, Proquest, and Pubmed, then established inclusion and exclusion criteria using the PICOS method to select and evaluate the quality of papers related to the topic. The search keywords employed were "preparedness factors" and "volcanic eruptions" for Google Scholar and "preparedness factors" and "volcano eruption" for ProQuest and PubMed. The journal article search instrument or tool used is zetero. Through study literature, it shows that there are factors related to the community's preparedness to face a disaster of volcano eruptive; It is the factor of knowledge and attitude. There are several differences in the research findings for knowledge and attitude factors. One researcher establishes a link between preparedness and knowledge and attitudes, and several knowledge and attitude studies do not discuss the link between community preparedness and volcanic eruptions. Meanwhile, there is no mention of the relationship between community preparedness and volcanic eruptions in the policy and guiding considerations, disaster plans, early warning systems, or resource mobilization capabilities. There is a link between knowledge and attitudes toward community preparedness to face a volcanic eruption. In contrast, from 6 articles, there was no discussion about the relationships between policy factors and guidelines, disaster plans, early warning systems, and resource mobilization capacity for community preparedness to face a disaster of volcanic eruptions.