Wildfire causes a lot of impacts to Indonesian forest areas. The impact includes loss of biodiversity, destroyed agriculture areas, and loss of properties. Communities living near forest areas are also at risk from wildfire impacts. This paper explores current practices of community preparedness to wildfire in Indonesia. The majority of wildfire occurrences in Indonesia in fact are induced by anthropogenic activities. Therefore, raising community preparedness will help not only to increase community resilience but also to their better management to mitigate fire occurrences. This paper argues that collaboration between stakeholders (community, private companies, and government) will be beneficial to increase not only community preparedness but also to reduce fire incidents. © 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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