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Natural disasters are events caused by events or a series of events caused by nature. Natural disasters include earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, floods, droughts, hurricanes, and landslides. Indonesia has a very high threat of geological disasters, making it vulnerable to tectonic earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. Lack of awareness of the Indonesian people about disaster preparedness will increase the impact of disaster events. Mount Merapi is one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. For this reason, disaster preparedness is critical, especially for people in Disaster Prone Areas (DPA) III. This study aimed to determine the level of individual/household readiness index in DPA III in facing the eruption of Mount Merapi. The results showed that the readiness of individuals/households in DPA III was in the "ready" category with an index value of 75,440. While the index values of each parameter are knowledge and attitude parameters (93,978), emergency response plan parameters (68,591), disaster warning system parameters (74,46), and resource mobilization parameters (36,129). The resource mobilization parameter has the lowest index value based on these four parameters, followed by the emergency response plan parameter. Therefore, in this case, the Government, the Regional Disaster Management Agency, and the community need to prioritize awareness-raising and strategies for increasing index values for these two parameters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the food industries a significant aspect of several products is the package system. Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a tool that can guide the company to recognize and to identify the customer' needs to be transformed into diverse forms of planning and strategy business that would be able to offer to the continuous improvement of a given product or service produced. QFD also can help in developing packaging systems by improving packaging components or the package itself. One part of the famous food industries in Yogyakarta, Indonesia is the XYZ Noodles restaurant that sells noodles with a certain level of spiciness. The packaging of XYZ Noodles restaurant is using Styrofoam that harms health and the environment. Also, the packaging of XYZ Noodles restaurant does not have enough information for consumers. This resulted in many consumers have less knowledge to the identity and information of the XYZ Noodles restaurant's product. Therefore, this research is aimed to study in designing the packaging of the XYZ Noodles restaurant for better introduction of the product as well as the safety in delivering and consumption to reduce the level of environmental pollution using Quality Function Deployment (QFD). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]