Proceedings of International Structural Engineering and Construction, 9(1), 2022 State-of-the-art Materials and Techniques in Structural Engineering and Construction Edited by Holschemacher, K., Quapp, U., Singh, A., and Yazdani, S. Copyright © 2022 ISEC Press ISSN: 2644-108X www.doi.org/10.14455/ISEC.2022.9(1).RAD-10 RAD-10-1 COMMUNITY RESILIENCE MODEL: A CASE STUDY OF AN EARTHQUAKE DISASTER DEBBY WILLAR, STEVE SUPIT, DON KABO, and NOVATUS SENDUK Civil Engineering Dept, Manado State Polytechnic, Manado, Indonesia The aim of the study is to construct a model of community resilience using the earthquake in Indonesia as a case study. Indonesia has problems with how the community prepares itself before, during, and after a disaster. The study employs exploratory focus group interviews with respondents grouped into communities from Central Sulawesi and West Java who were affected by the earthquake. The study reveals that there are clear gaps in the community response to the mitigation, preparation, and recovery of humanitarian disasters. There is a lack of disaster awareness, cooperation and coordination between the community and the local government, and the need for strategic steps before a disaster is one of the key findings from the interviews. This study provides a model of strategic mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery for the community so that the dynamics of the disaster management cycle can be understood, and lessons provided to improve their resilience in the case of future emergencies. Keywords: Mitigation, Preparation, Response, Recovery. 1 INTRODUCTION Indonesia is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquakes, as the geographical location of the Indonesian region is in the ring of fire, with an active volcano. Thus, occurrences of disasters have increased in recent years, including earthquakes which have damaged public facilities and caused loss of life. For example, the earthquake of Aceh on 26 December 2004, the tectonic earthquake in Palu, Central Sulawesi on September 28, 2018, and 26 destructive earthquakes throughout 2021, as reported by the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG). Although earthquakes are difficult to predict, steps can be taken to prevent the impact of damage and adverse effects on humans by using disaster management strategies. As such, research into planning and preparedness is much needed, rather than simply applying a response and recovery process to crises and disasters (Ritchie and Jiang 2021). A well-planned recovery process is required by considering the uniqueness of each disaster (Ali and Mannakkara 2020). Indeed, research on disaster management covering strategies for mitigation, preparation, response, and recovery is needed to provide insight into all disaster management stakeholders in order to cope with humanitarian disasters. Thus, this study aims to draw a model of community resilience by using earthquakes in two provinces in Indonesia as examples. The model was built on focus group interviews with disaster management stakeholders as the primary data source. The objective of the model is to provide communities with strategies for before, during, and after disasters to build resilience in dealing with earthquake disasters.