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The Government of Indonesia has been extensively implementing the Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) program since 2010, in collaboration with various stakeholders, including non-government agencies, private sector, and academia. The country issued a “Safe School Road Map” 2015-2019, established the National Secretariat for Safe Schools, issued several ministerial regulations and technical guidelines, and continues to deliver a wide range of capacity building initiatives. To support the finalization of the medium strategic plan (RPJMN) 2020-2024 and UNICEF strategic planning, this study is commissioned to build evidence for moving forward and designing future strategy that aims to be effective, efficient, sustainable, and deliver the most impact.

In Indonesia, the Ministry of Education and Culture is leading the safe schools’ implementation in the country. The nation-wide safe schools programme applies the three pillars of the Comprehensive Safe School (CSS) framework, which include: 1) school facilities; 2). school disaster management; and 3) disaster risk reduction in education. This has been contextualized in local policies including BNPB regulation No. 4 / year 2012 on safe schools. In this regulation, safe school implementation addresses two major components: firstly, structural component such as: safe location, safe building structure, safe classroom design and set-up, supporting facilities/infrastructure, and secondly, non-structural component including knowledge, attitude and practice, safe school/safe madrasah policies, planning for disaster preparedness and resource mobilization.

Indonesia also has issued a ‘Safe School Road Map’ 2015-2019 with a strategic goal to protect learners, teachers, education personnel from the risk of death and injury in school, to improve the quality of education facilities and infrastructure for safer schools and to ensure education continuity before, during and after disasters and to strengthen resilience of school community in times of disaster. Indonesia has also set up disaster management mechanisms in the education sector with the following phases: pre-disaster (prepared by each Directorate/Unit in MoEC), emergency response (led by Directorate of Special Education) and post-disaster (prepared by each Directorate/Unit). This requires cross-coordination with BNPB as well as international non- governmental organizations and UN agencies.