Tag: idul fitri

  • Korban Lapindo Nyekar Leluhur di Tanggul Lumpur

    Korban Lapindo Nyekar Leluhur di Tanggul Lumpur

    TEMPO.CO, Sidoarjo- Menjelang lebaran Idul Fitri, puluhan warga korban lumpur lapindo mendatangi titik 42 Desa Renokenongo Porong Sidoarjo. Mereka berkumpul tepat di bawah tenda biru dan menggelar istighozah dilanjutkan tabur bunga di pinggir tanggul titik 42.

    Pada istighozah itu mereka mendoakan arwah sesepuhnya yang sudah meninggal dan makamnya terendam oleh luapan panas Lapindo. ”Kami ingin mendoakan sesepuh, semoga beliau diterima di sisi-Nya,” kata penanggung jawab sementara Desa Renokenongo, Subakrie, kepada wartawan usai acara istighozah, Kamis, 24 Juli 2014.

    Menurut Subakrie, kegiatan itu biasa dilakukan tiap tahun menjelang Idul Fitri guna mengingat dan mendoakan arwah sesepuhnya yang makamnya dulu berada di sekitar titik 42 itu. Selain itu, tradisi dalam Islam ketika menjelang lebaran biasanya nyekar ke makam-makam. “Karena di sini makamnya sudah terendam, maka kami hanya nyekar di tanggul saja,” katanya.

    Koordinator penggerak istighosah, Djuwito, mengatakan acara itu sengaja digelar menjelang lebaran, bahkan biasanya satu atau dua hari menjelang lebaran. “Namun karena sekarang hari Kamis dan nanti malam tepat malam Jumat yang terakhir dari bulan ramadan maka kami selenggarakan hari ini,” kata dia.

    Istighozah itu, kata dia, selain mendoakan arwah sesepuhnya, mereka berharap supaya menyentuh hati pemerintah segera melunasi ganti rugi yang belum terbayarkan hingga saat ini. “Sudah delapan tahun kami terlunta-lunta disiksa oleh pemerintah, mereka sudah tak peduli pada kami,” kata dia.

    Subakrie, mengatakan Presiden SBY pernah berjanji untuk menyelesaikan masalah ganti rugi ini pada masa pertengahan masa jabatannya atau pada masa akhir masa jabatannya. “Dan sekarang sudah masuk pada masa akhir masa jabatanya, kami berharap sebelum berakhir masa jabatannya untuk menyelesaikan masalah ganti rugi,” kata dia.

    Menurut Subakrie, pihak korban lumpur yang dibantu oleh beberapa pengacara dan para mahasiswa fakultas hukum Surabaya telah melayangkan permohonan kepada SBY, inti permohonan kami hanya ada dua, yaitu meminta dana talangan kepada pemerintah dan pembayaran ganti rugi dilaksanakan oleh pemerintah. “Keduanya ini sama-sama menguntungkan kami,” kata dia.

    Permohonan itu, kata Subakrie, sudah diterima kantor Sekretaris Negara dan akan segera diberikan kepada SBY untuk diminta tandatangani dan pengesahan dari presiden. Dalam waktu dekat, korban Lapindo akan pergi ke Jakarta untuk menemui SBY. “Tepatnya satu minggu setelah lebaran,” kata dia.

    Selain itu pula, para korban lumpur ini akan sowan kepada presiden yang baru untuk membantu memuluskan atau merealisasikan ganti rugi itu. “Semoga pak SBY dan presiden yang baru masih punya hati nurani untuk membantu kami,” kata dia.

    © MOHAMMAD SYARRAFAH | Kamis, 24 Juli 2014

    Sumber: http://ramadan.tempo.co/read/news/2014/07/24/155595556/Korban-Lapindo-Nyekar-Leluhur-di-Tanggul-Lumpur

     

     

  • Lapindo Refugees Pray at Mudflow Site

    TempoInteractive, Jakarta – Hundreds of Lapindo mudflow refugees held Idul Fitri prayer at the site of the mudlow in Sidoarjo, East Java on Wednesday. The refugees picked one site for their prayer in Ketapang Keres village cancelling the two previous locations within the mud flooded area prepared the day before.

    Hundreds of Lapindo mudflow refugees held Idul Fitri prayer at the site of the mudlow in Sidoarjo, East Java on Wednesday. The refugees picked one site for their prayer in Ketapang Keres village cancelling the two previous locations within the mud flooded area prepared the day before.

    A legislator Ario Widjanarko told reporters after the prayer that the house will monitor the compensation for the remaining mudflow refugees who have not receive the pay off. A member of the Indonesian Human Rights Commission also joined the prayer at the mudlake area.

    Refugees held an annual visit to the grave of their relatives, a tradition which follows Ramadan and Idul Fitri in some places or groups in Indonesia, and the areas where their properties were.

    The mudflow in Porong subregency spurred in 2006 at one of the exploration site of the Lapindo Brantas mining company in the region.

    More than 10.000 residence were forced to leave their land as the mud form a 2,5 square miles lake which drowned everything in the area. The mudflow is still continuing.

    Rohman Taufiq

    © Tempo Interactive

  • Lapindo Victims Cry For Cash Aid

    SIDOARJO TEARS: Mariati, 43, (right) a victim of the Lapindo mudflow in Porong, Sidoarjo, cries after conducting Ied prayers next to a hot mud retention dam on Wednesday. Mariati said her father died from deep depression that resulted from the disaster which had devastated their house and farmland. (JP/Indra Harsaputra)

    The Jakarta Post, Sidoarjo – Mariati, 43, (right) a victim of the Lapindo mudflow in Porong, Sidoarjo, cries after conducting Ied prayers next to a hot mud retention dam on Wednesday. Mariati said her father died from deep depression that resulted from the disaster which had devastated their house and farmland.

    Thousands of mudflow victims in Sidoarjo, East Java, said their Ied prayer for Idul Fitri by the hot mud that covers their assets and culture, their hopes of soon receiving more cash compensation fading fast.

    All the attendees, wearing Islamic attire, said their Ied prayer while facing the vast pool of mud — still spewing out hot liquid and odorous gases — under which their houses, land and dead relatives are buried, never to be seen again.

    This was the third time the mudflow victims performed their Ied prayer on the raised round dikes since the mud first began to flow from the mining site of energy company Lapindo Brantas Ltd on May 29, 2006.

    “Right from the beginning, Lapindo has done nothing, by either thought or donation, to help us with a house of worship. Even worse, the mudflow has submerged a mosque built by residents of the four devastated villages,” Muhayatin, 38, a former resident of the submerged village of Renokenongo, told The Jakarta Post after the prayer on Wednesday.

    “All we have — the social community and the culture built over many generations — has been submerged below the drying mud.”

    She said they had decided to perform the Ied prayer at the disaster site not only to honor their emotional connection to their lost community and dead relatives, but also as a reminder they had not received the remaining 80 percent compensation that should have been paid last month.

    She admitted she had received Rp 42 million (US$4500) in compensation — 20 percent of the total — for her home and land. But that was two years ago, she said, and she had no more money to pay the rent, support her family and finance her four children’s education.

    “We are praying here not to celebrate our victory over the monthlong fast, but to recall our lost community and our two years of pain in exile,” she said.

    “We are now strangers in our new environment after living in poverty for two years with no certainty about the payment of the remaining 80 percent compensation.”

    The community that had been lost was one major asset that no amount of money could compensate for, she added.

    Muhayatin, formerly a worker in a factory also destroyed by the mud, has no job now. Her husband has to work as a parking attendant near the mud, with a monthly income of about Rp 300,000 per month.

    “This sum is not enough to meet our daily basic needs,” she said.

    Another local, Mariati, who looked sad as she recalled the disaster, said she was thinking of her father Muntari, who died aged 75 in a deep depression over his house and other assets that were buried by the mudflow.

    “I have no more tears. Lapindo and the government should not make me cry again over the suspended payment of the remaining compensation,” she said.

    Lapindo spokeswoman Yuniwati Teryana said her company would pay the remaining compensation as soon as possible.

    “We are appealing to mudflow victims to be patient. We will pay the compensation as stipulated by the 2007 presidential regulation,” she said.

    Lapindo has so far paid Rp 660 billion for the 20 percent compensation, Rp 719.3 billion for a resettlement program and Rp 169 billion for cash-and-carry settlement. An estimated Rp 5.6 trillion will be need to pay the remaining 80 percent compensation.

    Indra Harsaputra and ID Nugroho

    Sumber: The Jakarta Post