Safer Schools Rapid Diagnostics in Indonesia

Safer Schools Rapid Diagnostics in Indonesia aimed to help the government pursue the safer schools agenda for more than 300,000 schools. Spread across different islands, 75 percent of the schools were located in hazard zones. At the time of the project, there was a shortage of classrooms, and the demand was increasing faster than the supply. This was compounded by a lack of maintenance of school infrastructure and, in many districts, damage to schools from previous disasters. The program encountered various challenges to its implementation processes, which included the planning, design, and construction of new schools and the assessment and repair of existing school infrastructure. 

Activities supported by the World Bank

• Detailed diagnostic assessments to gain an understanding of the range of hazards and the drivers of risk that might compromise the planning, design, construction, repair and retrofitting, and operation of school infrastructure and to compile information on the most common school building types and their seismic performance

• Evaluation of the needs for new school infrastructure, taking into account short- and long-term projections

• Gap analysis of hazard information and policy implementation regarding safer schools

Main outputs

• A comprehensive report detailing the main findings of the just-in-time activities, including stakeholder meetings, school visits, and a review of existing data 

• Categorization of 21 schools that were visited into five building types: unreinforced masonry; confined masonry; concrete moment frame; timber hunched frame; and lightweight steel frame

• Identification of five funding streams for delivering new school infrastructure and repairing damaged infrastructure, the most common being national funding from the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture, Religious Affairs, and Finance