2.4 Summary of results(1) Residents•While many residents evacuated to a higher place at the occurrence ofTsunami, a certain number of people (9,04%) went to sea to have a look as thesea level dropped•

44,70% residents answered no idea about knowledge of Tsunami disasteroccurred in Indonesia, 21,70 % of residents have very limited knowledge oftsunami, and 33,60 % think that the Tsunami damage could have been
reduced if they had known more about it.

•76,70 % of residents answered Television is most useful information sourcesoon after Tsunami. Because first week after tsunami disaster, the situation in
Banda Aceh and Aceh Besar was still not normal, and people really wanted toknow about the rescue work in order to get information about people who savefrom the disaster. They want to know whether their family or relatives weresaved. The media of information in the first week was TV where there was oneof much known TV station, Metro TV, giving full information on their Breaking
News on Tsunami disaster. People also got the information from the IDP
camps where they were temporarily stayed.

•Most of respondents answered that the most effective ways to raise publicawareness on disaster reduction were Establishment of Tsunami early warning
system and planting trees along the coast.

(2) School Children•

36,02% Of School children responded that they never learnt about natural
disaster, however 92,84 % would like to study them, which shows highinterest for disaster education, within the students.

1•The survey revealed that 63,78% of children were still ignorant about thecause of Tsunami, while 36,22% have properly understood it. This resultunderlines the dire need of promoting disaster education urgently.

•It is expected that disaster education in schools in turn might have apositive impact on educating adults as well, since 77,11% of children used
to talk with their families what they learnt in the school.

(3) Class teachers•

35,71% from 84 teachers answered that they had a well-functioning
curriculum on a subject for learning about natural disasters.

•Teachers answered that reading books (42,86%), videos (32,14%), picture
books (22,62%) and posters (2,38%) were effective for a education materialfor disaster reduction.

(4) Government officers•

16,67% of those surveyed answered that training / seminars and drills fornatural disasters were available in their offices. Other 83,33 % of thegeneral authorities were not available of these training /seminars.

•80,83% of surveyed officials feel the need to take disaster reduction
measures for tourist. Specially Pamphlets on Tsunami in different
languages are made available in hotels is considered as the most effective
way to preserve their security (51,55%).

•According to the survey results to government officials, disaster reduction
measures to be taken are establishment of early warning system for natural
disaster (17,19%), strengthening capability of search and rescue and2

emergency of medical service (13,37%) and enhancement of emergency
information dissemination system (11,81%).
•Sirens and bells is considered as the most effective tools to disseminate
disaster warning to the residents (26,48%), followed by TV (25,55%) andradio (24,30%).

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