Padang city is one of the most vulnerable areas of an earthquake potentially tsunami on the west coast of Sumatra Island. The government should formulate policies to minimize the impact of the disaster. The government and all relevant stakeholders should focus on disaster risk reduction efforts. As part of this effort is making policy in formulating contingency plans to deal with tsunami risk. Padang City Government has developed a contingency plan on tsunami risk since 2013 as a form of public policy. Even though the tsunami has not occurred in Padang City yet, but as a form of evaluation of this policy, it is necessary to analyze the problems in developing the contingency plan of the tsunami for the improvement of its future. Therefore, this article describes the results of the review of problem analysis in the policy of composing tsunami contingency plans in Padang City.

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This article aims to describe the research findings about the local community disaster preparedness based on local values in facing the risk of earthquake and tsunami. The authors describe the disaster preparedness of a community with high level of homegenity, since the activity of disaster preparedness for highly homogenic community is very crucial due to to the high population. Beside that, intervention in highly homogenic community is relatively easier in short term because of their uniformed background. The authors also identify the community’s values that can be used as a basis in strengthening community preparedness. Local values include the following: strengthening the role of ‘niniak mamak’, increasing the attendance in the mosque, prayer and ‘ciloteh Lapau’ (conversations in stalls). The result of this study is expected to become the basis for stakeholders in the city of Padang in formulating comprehensive disaster management policies, particularly pre-disaster management. Keywords: disaster, risk preparedness, local values

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This study aimed at analyzing the impact of government policies towards the economy and education of fishermen's children of Minangkabau and Nias ethnics in Padang City. This study used the qualitative method with a case study approach. The main data sources were gathered from structured interview to eight fisherman families and were analyzed thematically using NVivo 10 software as the qualitative analysis instrument. The result of the study discussed four essential themes namely; first, the government policies towards the fisherman had been capable of improving their economy both Minangkabau and Nias ethnics. Second, the economic improvement for Minangkabau ethnics had an impact towards their life proven by the increasing quality of their children's education from the primary level until the higher education level. Third, the economic improvement for Nias ethnics, on the other hand, had no impact at all towards their children's education quality. Fourth, the impact differences regarding the children's education of both ethnics were caused by culture, parents' mindset, and children's' interest in education. According to parents and fishermen’s children of Minangkabau ethnic, education matters a lot for the sake of pursuing a brighter future, while according to parents and fishermen’s children of Nias ethnic, education does not really matter.