FUNNY HAND PUPPET STORY TELLING SEBAGAI METODE PENGENALAN BENCANA LONGSOR

• Main Authors: Rini Kusumawardani, Hanggoro Tri Cahyo Andiyarto, Muhammad Hamzah Fansuri, Kurnia Dwi Anggraini, Tigo Mindiastiwi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Negeri Semarang 2016-01-01
• Series: Jurnal Teknik Sipil dan Perencanaan
• Subjects: Landslide; Funny Hand Puppet
• Online Access: https://journal.unnes.ac.id/nju/index.php/jtsp/article/view/6691

Indonesia, as a tropical region, shows high potential for rainfall. At highlands, enormous rainfall triggers both soil and coastal erosion. Landslides are frequently occured in Semarang in which some of whose areas are indicated as highlands with unstable soil. This study was carried out in DeliksariSukerejo, Gunungpati sub-district of Semarang. Various effort have been done to prevent the disaster such as socialization of preventing landslide given by government, private institutions, colleges, and non-governmental organizations. However, most of those method only involve for the adults, involving of the children in effort to understandthe disaster mitigation concept are less. One of the effort used was FHP (Funny Hand Puppet) Story Telling. This method tried to draw children’s attention by handy-puppets shows, so the the purpose which is hoped could be well-transferred. As many as 24 children attended this shows. From the pre-test, it was gained 84.3% of those who did not know simple ways to avert the landslide. After the socialization had been given, post-test results showed 94.8% of the children significantly understood the danger of landslide. From the results depicted the increasing of landslide awareness as 10.5%. All respondent were children between 4-13 years old.This method provided broader education about landslide happening in their surroundings.