Traditional Game as the Communication in Disaster Mitigation

Indonesia is included into ring of fire zone, disaster could be happened without advance warning and place. The fact is, in 2018 there are 513 disasters had happened, such as tornado or puting beliung, landslide, forest fire, flood, earthquake and eruption. Like what had happened in Maluku, due to the extreme weather, there were flood and landslide in several spots in Ternate, North Maluku. To see that, it is considered very important to give early education about how to resolve the disaster. For the example for the elementary student through the traditional game. Traditional game is one of the education instrument which can be used to deliver message for the learning purpose. The goal of this research is want to know that the traditional game is able to deliver how to resolve the disaster. Research method which is used qualitative method through deeply interview, focus group discussion and field observation. The research result are (1) kinds of traditional game, the function and how to use suitable with the culture of North Maluku community. (2) Through the traditional game the students learn knowledge about how to resolve the disaster in a fun way. The conclusion of this research is traditional game can give education to the elementary students about how to resolve the disaster.