October 20168 By Dr. Djuwari, Director of Language Laboratory, STIE Perbanas Surabaya, IndonesiaIt is imperative that all the nations see evidences concerning the attitude towards disaster in the country which is prone to such a calamity. Disasters in this case are such as tsunami, earthquake, flood, volcano explosion, and the like. Countries which are prone to such disasters should be addressed by introducing the strategy of having positive attitude rather than negative one.It was five years ago, exactly in 2011, a research (Suryani and Dju-wari, 2011) on the attitude of the college students towards the disaster in their environment provided some clues. There were some evidences in-dicating different perception towards the disaster. In that study, we took 101 students in my college of between 18 to 23 years old. Among these college students, it indicated several results. For example, only 47.5 percent believed that the disaster in their environment was due to natural phenomenon which can be described scientifically. Unfortunately, the rest of 52.5 percent of them believed that it was due to mostly the mystical power. When it is related to their religions, they thought that all disasters were due to the act of God. It is interesting for their religions were varied: Buddhists consisted of 6.9 percent, Hindu of 4 percent, Protestant and Catholic were 10.9 percent, and the majority was Islam of 78.2 percent. With reference to the evidenc-es above, disasters can be predicted that these calamities tend to be ap-proached differently. They perceived mostly that these disasters are due to mystical power. Now that the attitude of human beings is obviously affect-ed by the perception and this percep-tion can create the attitude towards the disaster in the environment. It was about 5 years ago, exactly in 2011. So far, in Indonesia, during the past five years, we have experienced Disaster Management through Educational ResearchFounded in 1970, Indonesia based STIE Perbanas Surabaya is a higher educational institution that provides teaching and learning aids including access to the science of economics business and banking & laboratories.IN MY VIEW
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