Abstract:
Beginning of 2017, the society had been shocked by the ship accident which occurred at Kepulauan Seribu Jakarta which had caused the death of dozens passengers on board who died are likely to be caused by panic and do not know what should to do. The objective of research is to gather the information related to the safety knowledge of Ro-Ro ferry passengers during voyage at sea. The gap analysis method is applied to find the differences between perception and expectation of Ro-Ro ferry passenger towards safety aspects. The result indicated that there is gap for all variables which can be categorized into three groups. The results give the important point for developing further approach to avoid similar incident in the. Further research on the detail approach need to be carried out which focus on the effective way in increasing the safety awareness of Ro- Ro ferry passenger.
