Landslide is one of the common hazards occurring globally and Malaysia is not spared as well. Over the past
four decades, Malaysia has played host to a number of landslide incidents, resulting in significant loss of lives
and damage to property. The magnitude of landslide destruction is quite high in Malaysia. A survey has been
carried out on 143 respondents in selected areas. This paper presents the findings on how Malaysians react
towards landslide incidents, who their landslide informer are and to whom they preferred to disseminate
information on landslide incidents. The result from this study indicates that the majority of the respondents
agree that factors such as education and proper land use are important to mitigate landslide incidences.
Additionally, the respondents also agree that they will take action if landslide occurs in the future. Most of
the respondents agree that they preferred information from landslide expert. However, majority of the
respondents indicates that they have less trust towards the media’s landslide information and are also
reluctant to disseminate landslide information to the media. Therefore, a further research on media, public
and landslide issues in Malaysia should be conducted in the future.