Pidie Jaya. Lancang Paru Village, Bandar Baru Subdistrict, Pidie Jaya Regency, Aceh Province, directly faces the Malacca Strait and one of the worst affected villages was hit by the tsunami of late 2004. Moreover, on December 7 2016, the village was also one of the villages affected by an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.5 at a depth of 15 km.
Based on this, the Center for the Study and Protection of Children (PKPA) assessed the importance of Lancang Paru's community preparedness for disaster threats. In collaboration with Mercy Relief, PKPA then initiated the provision of training to the community about finding disaster victims.
"The training will provide knowledge about disaster problems to the community. People will be more alert to the threat of disasters at any time," said Ismail Marzuki as program manager on Wednesday (10/17) afternoon.
These activities are in the form of a participatory Focus Group Discussion (FGD), Vulnerability Analysis and Capacity Participation (PVCA), facilitated by Teuku Satria Mahmud and Aswadi. From the activities that lasted for 2 days, on 16 and 17 October 2018 at the Lancang Paru Meunasah, the community was deployed to be able to map vulnerable areas and promote information about the evacuation routes during the 2004 earthquake and tsunami.