Natural disaster happens quite frequently in Indonesia. The Government has attempted to tackle natural disaster by developing disaster mitigation mainstreaming plan in almost every aspect of the country's development fields, including in education. However, early childhood education remains overlooked in the discussion pertaining the natural disaster. Using a literature review approach, this paper aims to elaborate why early childhood education needs to be included in the nation's disaster mitigation mainstreaming program. The finding of this paper is expected to illuminate how early childhood education program should be designed in order to be responsive with the natural disaster.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia, something that has escaped the public attention is the high level of natural disaster threats in Indonesia. If this condition is left unattended, the whole situation in Indonesia will become even more complex and will do harm to the children. Through the perspective of post-developmentalism, the researcher believes that children are able to be included in multi-hazards natural disaster risk mitigation. This research uses meta-analysis to examine several research results that identify the children's participation during multi-hazards disasters and pandemic situations. The result finds that even during multi-hazards disasters and pandemic situations, children should be given opportunities to participate in the disaster mitigation as a preventive measure. Therefore, children's resilience would increase and become a reducing factor that may lower the disaster risks in Indonesia.

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