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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]

Disaster preparedness is an effective, realistic and coordinated planning program with risk reduction measures, reducing the impact of disasters, saving lives optimally, and returning the community to normal conditions in the shortest possible time. Sleman Regency has a volcanic eruption of Mount Merapi potensial. The agency of the emergency response should manage the emergency response period effectively and efficiently both concerning victim handling, and disaster logistics management. This study aims to identify factors for assessing regional readiness in disaster management. The analytic hierarchy process was employed to accomplish the objective of this research. There are 11 factors for assessing regional readiness in natural disaster management, namely: strengthening the legal framework for disaster management, mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in development, enhancing multi-party partnerships in disaster management, implementing Good Governance in disaster management, increasing the effectiveness of disaster prevention and mitigation, improving preparedness and handling disaster emergencies, increasing disaster recovery capacity, understanding disaster risk, strengthening risk governance, DRR investment for resilience, and improving risk management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Disaster management is a dynamic, sustained, and integrated process to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of activities related to the prevention, mitigation, preparedness, early warning, emergency response, rehabilitation, and reconstruction of the disaster. During the emergency phase, the transportation of humanitarian aids logistic must be properly managed in order to arrive on time and suit with the type and number of needs at each location of evacuation. During Merapi eruption in 2010, there were problems in the distribution of disaster logistic. They included the delay and the mismatch amount and types of relief goods at any location of evacuation. It is mainly due to the absence of transportation system planning to distribute disaster logistic owned by BPBD Sleman. The research aims to improve the system transportation of disaster logistics at the emergency response in order to minimize the unfulfilled demand and transport time using the algorithm Variable Neighborhood Search (VNS). The VNS algorithm is a meta-heuristic algorithm to solve combinatorial and global optimization. The basic idea of this algorithm is a systematic change of neighborhood with local search. The research resulted in four tours that optimally match the objective function with two trucks and two pick-ups. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]