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Abstract

Knowledge management is a vital part of disaster preparedness in reducing the disaster impacts. This article presents data based on a field survey of 200 people in East Lombok, Indonesia. The data taken from the survey is presented to examine how the community utilized the knowledge created and transferred during the preparedness phase into actions during the response phase. This article’s data can be served as a starting point to examine knowledge management topics in humanitarian operations literature further and to reveal more novel insights from the survey results. This data-in-brief article accompanies the paper “Knowledge management and natural disaster preparedness: A systematic literature review and a case study of East Lombok, Indonesia” by Ratih Dyah Kusumastuti, A. Arviansyah, N. Nurmala, and Sigit S. Wibowo.

Data Description

The data in this article is the data collected from a field survey using a questionnaire that was developed based on a systematic literature review on knowledge management and disaster preparedness [1,2]. We inquired about the activities practiced before the mid-2018 earthquake and between the mid-2018 earthquake and the early-2019 earthquake. We also elicited the community’s responses during the two earthquakes to define the activities’ impact on the community’s responses during the disasters. Based on the Regional Agency for Disaster Management (BPBD) data, we chose two subdistricts in East Lombok Regency and five villages in each of the selected subdistricts that experienced severe impacts/damages from the earthquakes. We included 100 people from the Sambelia sub-district and 100 people from the Sembalun sub-district for this survey. The respective village heads conducted the respondent selection in each village (as they knew well the villagers’ condition after the earthquakes); 20 respondents were selected. Due to traumatic and sensitive issues, heads of the villages invited the selected respondents to the village meeting areas so that our local enumerators could ask and fill in the survey; hence, all questions were answered by the respondents.