The Relationship of Community Knowledge and Attitudes with the Handling of Tornado Natural Disasters in Sumbul District, Dairi Regency

Potential disasters in the territory of the unitary state of
Indonesia can be grouped into 3 (three) types of disasters,
namely natural disasters, non-natural disasters, and social
disasters. Tornado is one of the extreme conditions that occur in
the atmosphere characterized by very fast air movement and
forming a vortex of air column. Based on the description, the data
above and the incident above, so that researchers are interested
in researching the relationship between the title of knowledge
and attitudes of the community with the handling of the tornado
natural disaster in Sumbul sub-district, Dairi district. The
research design uses an analytical survey (explanatory research)
which tries to explore how and why this phenomenon occurs.
then analyze the dynamics of the correlation between
phenomena, both between risk factors (independent) and effect
factors (dependent). Population is the entire object of research or
researched and meet the specified characteristics. The
population in this study is the north, east, south and west by
using the simple random sampling method (simple random
sample) as many as 50 people. The cross tabulation of the results
obtained between the community and the handling of the natural
disaster of a tornado with a result of 0.010 and the attitude of the
community with the handling of the natural disaster of a tornado
in Sumbul sub-district, Dairi district, obtained a significant value
with a p-value of 0.015.