Program kesiapsiagaan kebakaran berbasis komunitas: studi di RW 04 Kelurahan Manggarai-Jakarta Selatan

Fire is one of the common disaster in Indonesia specially in many big cities including capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta. Although it is considered as human error factor and happened incidentally but fire has become a disaster because its eject to many aspect of community life. It also usually happens in high density area with low social-economic status. Thus, this intervention intends to empower vulnerable community against fire hazard. Research focus at the aspect of preparedness based on social-cognitive model (Paton, 2006). It is used to elaborate the factors of intention to prepare including critical awareness, sense of community, action coping, and outcome expectancy of the community as the basic to design an intervention in order to develop a proper form of risk communication that match with local community need. Vulnerability and capacity assessment technique is used to obtain the whole picture about community's vulnerabilities and capacities. Intervention strategy was directed to organize community preparedness through local organization and enhance community capacity against fire hazard. Results from this intervention indicate that fire preparednesscan be an effective way to improve community capacity. The results also show that intervention succeed to : 1) improve community knowledge about fire preparedness; 2) improve community outcome expectancy through specific behavior change; 3) build local community alertness team ; 4)form non-formal information sharing about fire preparedness within community. These results strengthen previous research stating that the success of community-based fire preparedness intervention program need to pay attention to locality aspect and the participation of community as primary source of support.