Disaster Response Drill Involving Children and Teachers
Toward Awareness of Disaster Preparedness for Children:
Developing Iza!Kaeru Caravan for Indonesia through Yogyakarta
IkaputraDepartment of Architecture & Planning, Faculty of Engineering
Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
ikaputra@gmail.com“Iza! Kaeru Caravan” is a disaster reduction event that is based on “Kaekko Bazaar”—a fun toyexchange (bazaar) program. The aim of “Iza!Kaeru Caravan” is that to preserve and communicate
the memories, knowledge and lessons gained by the victims of Hanshin-Awaji earthquake occurred
15 years ago to families in not only Kobe and Kansai area but also around Japan. The ultimate goal isto communicate past disaster experiences to children who will lead the next generation to be aware offuture disaster. The program has soon became populer among Japanese children and has been held in
Kobe, Yokohama, Niigata, Miyazaki, and Tokyo and other areas.
The introduction of the Iza!Kaera Caravan abroad (outside Japan) is to Yogyakarta, Indonesia since
the area suffered from devastated earthquake in May 27, 2006. This first abroad Iza!Kaeru Caravan(IKC- original Japan) was started in 2008. Meanwhile in 2009 we develop the original IKC Japan
into more local IKC suitable for Indonesia called Inisiatif!Kanca Cilik (IKC Indonesia). This change
also influenced the change of the IKC Japan Masterpiece: the kaeru (frog) into kancil (mouse deer)as the IKC Indonesia Materpiece. The program is still undergoing program and planned to be sustain
for the shake of future generation disaster awareness through Children in Indonesia. The Periodof Implementation program Indonesia, its target and involvements can be devided into five: (a)Pre-Project Implementation; (b) Pilot Project Implementation, and (c) Project Implementation 1(Involving Schools & Community); (d) Project Implementation 2 (Yogyakarta’s Target); (e) ProjectImplementation 3 (National Target), as describe in the following diagram:First three stage (Pre-project Implementation; Pilot Project Implementation; Project Implementation(Involving Schools & Community) have been done for 2008-2009. Mean while the year 2010 has
been planned to have a wider Yogyakarta’s target to improve Disaster Preparedness Education forChildren with specific goals:(1) Promoting the Disaster Awareness in Indonesia through Local IKC with Yogyakarta as aTarget (Schools &Community)(2) Empowering IKC Forum to conduct workshop and IKC events especially for Elementary
School Teachers and community(3) Holding the IKC Memorial of Earthquake Jogjakarta 2010 (IKC Carnival 2010) for thePromotion of Local IKC to wider Yogyakarya Province.
(4) Preparing for Promoting the Disaster Education for Children trough Local IKC with National
TargetIf we success with the Program Implemented 2 (Yogyakarta’s target), we will step to the National
level program, with the aim as follows:(1) Promoting the Disaster Preparedness Education for Children trough Local IKC to cities where
the risk of disaster hazard is high(2) Sustaining the Awareness of Disaster Preparedness for children as National concern
This Presentation is telling the involvement of school children and teachers on Disaster Response

Drilling which originally came from Japan within the frame work toward long achievementof disaster preparedness education.

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