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Warga Renokenongo Harus Menyingkir
Korban: Kita hanya bisa menunggu dan belum tahu mau pindah kemana.
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Polisi Pastikan Berkas Kasus Lumpur Lapindo Lengkap
Berkas dari Polda Jatim telah dikirimkan kepada kejaksaan hingga empat kali.
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Villages Victimized by of Lapindo Mudflow Demonstrate
Four villages are now uninhabitable because half the areas were affected by the mudflow while the other half were damaged by flammable gas.
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Mana Ganti Rugi Relokasi?
Dengan cekatan, Sunarsih memotong gulungan adonan tepung itu tipis-tipis. Setelah beberapa gulungan habis terpotong, irisan tepung itu ditatanya dalam tampah untuk dijemur di halaman samping pabrik. Begitulah yang dijalani perempuan 49 tahun itu sebagai pekerja di industri kecil PT Mekar Sari di Desa Sentul, Kecamatan Tanggulangin, Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, yang memproduksi kerupuk udang. Desa Sentul…
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Indonesia’s Government Saves the Bakrie Empire
Thursday, 16 October 2008 – Government companies step up to buy shares in a flailing family group. As it has in the past, the Indonesia government stepped in Wednesday to stop the unravelling of the empire of the politically powerful Chief Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie with a deal to allow government-owned companies to buy shares…
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State Firms Teaming Up to Help Out The Bakries
A number of state and private companies are exploring the possibility of forming a consortium to purchase a stake in the Bakrie family’s most valuable company and the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, PT Bumi Resources. State miners PT Tambang Batubara Bukit Asam (PTBA), PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) and PT Timah are in serious talks to seek…
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Govt Mulls Helping Out Bakrie to Repay Favor
The Bakrie family, headed by welfare minister Aburizal Bakrie, is unlikely to go bust any time soon, as the government ponders allowing state firms to buy stakes in the clan’s companies to help avoid a possible debt default. A failure by the family to secure immediate funding means it could risk losing the ownership of…
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Bupati Tuntut BPLS Segera Cairkan Lumpur Kali Porong
Sidoarjo (ANTARA News) – Bupati Sidoarjo, Win Hendrarso, memberi batas akhir (deadline) dua pekan ke depan kepada Badan Penanggulangan Lumpur Sidoarjo (BPLS) untuk menormalkan Kali Porong, Sidoarjo. “Kami sudah bertemu BPLS dan pihak yang menangani Kali Porong. Intinya, saya minta dalam dua minggu ini endapan lumpur di Kali Porong sudah mencair,” kata Bupati Sidoarjo kepada pers di Sidoarjo, Rabu…
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Tanggul Lumpur Ring Reno-Glagaharum Dibangun
Sidoarjo, (ANTARA News) – Badan Penanggulangan Lumpur Sidoarjo (BPLS) mulai Senin (6/10) akan membangun tanggul ring luar penahan luapan lumpur Lapindo Brantas Inc. di area perbatasan Renokenongo-Glagaharum, Porong Sidoarjo. Staf Humas BPLS Ahmad Kusairi di Sidoarjo, Minggu mengatakan, pembangunan tanggul ring itu sekaligus penahan pond (kolam penampungan lumpur) yang akan dijadikan cadangan tempat pembuangan lumpur saat menormalisasi Kali…
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Kerja Komnas HAM Ungkap Kasus Lapindo Dihambat
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Komnas HAM mengungkapkan, upayanya menangani dugaan tindak pelanggaran HAM pada kasus lumpur Lapindo di Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, telah dihambat sejumlah kalangan. “Banyak hambatan hukum yang kami alami,” kata Wakil Ketua Komnas HAM Ridha Saleh dalam diskusi buku “Tambang dan Pelanggaran HAM: Kasus Pertambangan di Indonesia 2004-2005” di Jakarta, Senin. Salah satu…
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Pengungsi Lumpur Lapindo PBP Kesulitan Kontrak Rumah
Sidoarjo (ANTARA News) – Pengungsi korban luapan lumpur Lapindo di Pasar Baru Porong (PBP) Sidoarjo kini kebingungan tidak bisa mengontrak rumah, karena uang kontrak rumah dari PT Minarak Lapindo Jaya sudah habis untuk kebutuhan lebaran 2008 lalu. Informasi yang dihimpun ANTARA, Sabtu menyebutkan, mereka berharap uang muka ganti rugi 20 persen segera dicairkan agar bisa…
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Geolog Internasional Bahas Lumpur Lapindo di London
Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Lebih 100 pakar geologi dari berbagai universitas ternama di dunia, termasuk Indonesia, mengadakan pertemuan dua-hari mulai Selasa di London untuk membahas fenomena semburan Lumpur Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur. Hal tersebut disampaikan pakar dari Universitas Durham, Dr. Richard Davies, dalam jumpa pers di London, Senin, terkait konferensi internasional para ahli kebumian internasional dengan…
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Lapindo Belum Bayar Uang Muka Korban Lumpur
Sidoarjo (ANTARA News) – Warga korban luapan lumpur Lapindo Brantas Inc. baik yang mendukung program pembayaran ganti rugi dengan cash and carry maupun cash and resettlement kini makin resah, karena hingga kini belum mendapat transfer pencairan dana 20 persen uang muka. Sebelumnya, warga korban lumpur yang mengungsi di Pasar Porong Baru (PPB) juga resah, karena…
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Safety Sought From Sidoarjo Mudflow Agency
The Sidoarjo regency administration is seeking a guarantee of safety from the government-backed Sidoarjo Mudflow Handling Agency (BPLS) that the dumping of hot mud into the River Porong will not trigger floods. Since October, 2006, BPLS has redirected 69 million cubic meters of hot mud into the river, triggering sedimentation that could lead to floods…
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Indonesia at the Crossroads (Sigh) Again
Friday, 24 October 2008 – A defining struggle breaks out between a reformer and the king of the country’s old guard. In one direction beckons people like Sri Mulyani Indrawati, the country’s finance minister. Clean, capable, she’s the anti-politician Indonesians love and who foreign investors can’t stop talking about. In one direction beckons people like Sri Mulyani…
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Mud Victims Spooked by Own Ghost Towns
Hundreds of houses in three villages were inundated with mud in Sidoardjo in February, and thousands of people were displaced from their homes, forcing them to live in makeshift tents erected along an abandoned toll road. While the sturdier structures in the three villages — Besuki, Kedung Cangkring and Renokenongo — were left inundated with…
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Victims Refuse to Sell Muddy Land to Lapindo
Some 69 families in the East Java villages of Jatirejo, Siring and Renokenongo are standing their ground, refusing to sell their land as part of the compensation plan proposed by the energy company being held responsible for the mudflow disaster. “If we accept the proposal the company is offering, it will amount to turning our…
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Mudflow Families Celebrate Idul Fitri in Makeshift Huts
For Supardi, the recent Idul Fitri celebrations were vastly different to previous years as his village struggled to rebuild after a devastating mudflow struck in February this year. As neighborhood head of Besuki village, Supardi and his fellow villagers celebrated Idul Fitri in emergency tents and makeshift houses after their homes and farmland were destroyed…
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Indonesia’s One-Man Wrecking Crew
Friday, 10 October 2008, written by Our Correspondent The Jakarta Stock Exchange remains closed after Bakrie Group companies are suspended from trading amid allegations of irregularities Indonesia’s billionaire Chief Welfare Minister Aburizal Bakrie, whose companies are already being held responsible for the biggest man-made environmental disaster in Indonesian history, is now in trouble for playing…