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Journalism can play an important role in the topic of disasters. With the broad and massive characteristics of the mass media and their ability to create agenda settings, mass media has become an important tool in disaster issues. Last December 2018, Banten Province was hit by tsunami, which destroyed the north coast of the Sunda Strait. This made headlines in various mass media in Indonesia and international media. They competed with each other to make the topic of the Sunda Strait Tsunami the main news. According to the journalistic point of view, the task of journalists is not only telling the reader what happened (heres what happened) but also must give meaning (heres what it means) and what the reader can do (heres what you can do about). In Disaster Management Cycle there is five step, disaster, response, rehabilitation, mitigation and preparedness. This study looks at how the media in Indonesia reports on The Sunda Strait Tsunami disaster. This study uses quantitative content analysis methods by taking news that appear in national media (Kumparan, Tirto ID, Beritagar and Kompas) as well as on Banten local media (Radar Banten, Newsmedia and Banten Pos) one month after the tsunami occurred (December 2018-January 2019). The results of this study indicate that (1) The role of mass media in Indonesia both locally and nationally is still in the first stage, Response (Rescue and Evacuation & Relief and External Support); (2) The news value raised by the majority is impact and popularity. The conclusion of this study, the mass media in Indonesia still raises the issue of suffering and sadness, has not arrived at the issue of disaster mitigation and disaster literacy.