Disaster Resilience Education (DRE) towards flood disaster on secondary school at Tanah Merah, Kelantan

Flooding has become a common occurrence as it occurs periodically in Malaysia. This annual occurrence of floods has given big impacts on live being including humans. Due to this negative impact of flood, we need to take an alternative way to reduce this disaster and pay serious attention for this issue. This study will focused on flood disaster management and the linkage in between school communities. Three schools involved in this study which are vulnerable to flood disaster in Tanah Merah, Kelantan. The objectives of this study is to identify programme of Disaster Resilience Education (DRE), to identify level of knowledge on awareness towards DRE and to investigate the factor on awareness towards DRE. Method used by this research study is by survey using questionnaire where it contains five section which include demographic, preparation, mitigation, recovery and response towards flood disaster. Then, the results were analysed by using descriptive analysis and inferential analysis which is, independent sample t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) is used. For this findings, lack of programme towards DRE among school communities and lower knowledge on awareness towards DRE were determined. Lastly, gender, type of respondents, race and type of school were contribute to the factor that effect awareness towards DRE. From this, respondent's knowledge and awareness towards DRE and the factors affecting the awareness programs towards DRE were determined.