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Natural disasters have become more frequent and intense worldwide and have caused severe disruptions that have affected extensive lives and property losses to people in the affected areas. There is no exception for Malaysia, where the flood is the most catastrophic natural disaster to have struck this nation. Floods have caused massive damage and disruption to infrastructure resilience components such as energy and water supply, transportation and telecommunication systems, and critical facilities like hospitals and shelters, particularly in Kelantan. Thus, there is an extreme need for infrastructure resilience components to resist, absorb, accommodate, and recover from the effects of floods in a timely and efficient manner. This study aims to identify the most important infrastructure resilience components for flood-prone areas in Kelantan by using relative importance index analysis. The descriptive analysis used was the Relative Importance Index (RII), supported by mean analysis using IBM SPSS version 26 to identify the most important level of infrastructure resilience components. In addressing the research aim, this study identified the top five most important infrastructure resilience components: critical facilities, radio networks, television broadcasts, air transportation, and water supply systems.
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