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  • Geologists Blame Gas Drilling for Indonesia Mud Disaster

    img_0641The University of Durham, in northeastern England, said 74 top scientists in petroleum geology debated Lusi at a conference in Cape Town, South Africa on Tuesday.

    Four experts put forward varying hypotheses, including the university’s professor of geology, Richard Davies, it said in a press release.

    Forty-two scientists voted in favour of Davies’ argument that the cause lay with a gas exploration well, Banjar-Panji-1, that was being drilled in the area by oil and gas company Lapindo Brantas, it said. (more…)

  • ANTARA – Kaukus DPR Desak Pemerintah Selesaikan Masalah Lapindo

    "Wilayah empat desa ini sudah diusulkan dan mendapatkan persetujuan

    DPR
    RI
    tanggal 11 September 2008," kata Suripto yang juga Wakil Ketua Komisi III
    (bidang hukum) DPR itu.

    Menurut politisi PKS itu, kondisi keempat wilayah desa itu sudah sangat tidak
    layak huni lagi akibat dampak lumpur yang menyebabkan sumber-sumber penghidupan
    warga disana seperti sumur dan sawah, tidak dapat digunakan lagi.

    Tidak layaknya daerah tersebut juga dikarenakan munculnya bubble gas baru yang
    tidak terkendali. khususnya di Siring Barat, Mindi dan Jatirejo Barat serta
    penurunan tanah (land subsidience) sehingga banyak bangunan yang retak dan akan
    ambruk.

    Kaukus juga mendesak agar pembayaran pembelian tiga desa, yakni Besuki,
    Kedungcangkring dan Pejarakan yang juga diluar peta terdampak agar dilakukan
    secepatnya paling lambat satu bulan sebelum masa kontrak rumah berakhir. (*)

     

  • ANTARA – Semburan Lumpur Sidoarjo Diperkirakan Berlangsung 140 Tahunasus Lapindo Butuh Advokasi Internasional

    Dalam konferensi geologi internasional yang berlangsung 21-22 Oktober lalu,
    semua geolog internasional sepakat semburan lumpur Sidoarjo (Lusi), yang
    dikenal sebagai lumpur Lapindo adalah sebuah mud volcano yang biasa muncul
    akibat remobilisasi sedimen dan fluida cekungan bawah tanah.

    Gunung lumpur itu sudah tidak menjadi isu hangat lagi dalam konferensi geologi
    internasional yang berlangsung di Burlington House Piccadilly London. Namun isu
    pemicu terjadinya Mud Volcano menjadi fokus diskusi dalam pertemuan pakar
    geologi dunia itu.

    Beberapa geolog kelas dunia itu bahkan berpendapat, merasa beruntung karena
    bisa menjadi saksi dan mempelajari gunung lumpur raksasa yang sedang lahir dan
    tumbuh.

    Pada kesempatan itu juga dijelaskan bahwa gunung lumpur akibat remobilisasi
    lumpur bawah tanah itu sudah lama menjadi obyek penelitian ilmuwan global. Ilmuwan
    Eric Deville dari Perancis dalam membe
    rikan
    ceramah utamanya mengatakan, "mud volcano adalah sebuah sistem bumi agar
    lestari".

    Puncak sesi diskusi mengenai Lusi ketika Dr. Richard Davies dan ketiga temannya
    menyatakan bahwa semburan Lumpur Sidoarjo adalah akibat pemboran (drilling) BJP
    I.

    Namun peserta seminar Dr. Nurrohmat Sawolo ahli drilling dari PT Energi Mega
    Persada (EMP) langsung menepis hipotesa tersebut. Karena semua data yang
    dijadikan dasar penyimpulan Davies sangat beda dengan data drilling otentik
    yang dimiliki Lapindo. Padahal data versi Lapindo itu asli dan menjadi pegangan
    kepolisian dan kejaksaan RI dalam penyidikan kasus Lusi, katanya.

    Pembicara dari

    Indonesia    ,
    Bambang Istadi menyimpulkan bahwa semburan Lusi bukan disebabkan oleh "underground
    blowout". "Dasarnya ada empat fakta berdasar data autentik
    Lapindo," jelasnya. Pertama, data rekaman tes temperatur dan sonan selama
    50 hari terhadap sumur BJP I menunjukan hasil menolak fenomena blowout. Fakta
    kedua tidak ada luberan, gas, steam, ataupun lumpur keluar dari Sumur BJP
    ketika dibuka.

    Fakta ketiganya adalah melalui re-entry diketahui mata bor tidak jatuh walau
    semburan yang berjarak 200 meter dari sumut BJP itu sudah berlangsung satu
    setengah bulan. Bila terjadi underground blowout pasti mata bor itu jatuh
    karena material lumpur yang keluar sudah jutaan ton.

    Fakta keempat tidak ditemukan "synthetic oil based drilling" dalam
    tes di berbagai titik survey semburan. "Semua fakta menunjukan sumur BJP
    masih sehat dan tidak terkoneksi dengan semburan," jelasnya.

    Peserta conference Dr. Christopher Jackson dari Imperial College London
    menyarankan solusi. "Harus segera ada kerjasama dan sharing data agar
    penyimpulan pemicu semburan Lusi menjadi benar," ujarnya.

    Sejak awal peserta geolog internasional yang datang dari Ame
    rika, Kanada, Perancis, Italy, Norwegia, Australia,
    German, Turki, Namibia, dan penjuru Inggris, Wales dan Skotlandia dalam
    konferensi ini sepakat bahwa Lusi sebuah mud volcano sebagai produk
    remobilisasi sedimen dan aliran fluida diwilayah cekungan bumi yang lemah.
    Karena itu semburan Lusi tidak bisa ditutup. (*)

     

  • 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 land into cash, but in principle that’s not what we want to do,” Ipung, a spokesperson for the villagers, told The Jakarta Post.

    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 land into cash, but in principle that’s not what we want to do,” Ipung, a spokesperson for the villagers, told The Jakarta Post.

    Lapindo Brantas Ltd., a giant energy company belonging to the Bakrie family, has proposed compensation for the residents.

    “This land belonged to our ancestors and our ancestors entrusted it to us,” said Ipung, who was born in the village of Jatirejo.

    Jatirejo, Siring, and Renokenongo are three of seven villages affected by the Lapindo mudflow disaster which began when mud gushing from a mining site in Porong district, Sidoarjo regency, May 29, 2006.

    Initially, the four villages of West Siring, Jatirejo, Mindi, and Renokenongo were inundated. In February this year, three more villages, Besuki, Kedungcangkring and Pejarakan were likewise buried in hot mud that sprang out of new, adjacent leaks.

    In a matter of days, the Porong district villages, near the East Java capital of Surabaya, were wiped from the map. Since then, disaster victims have organized themselves into several forums to advocate for their rights.

    Ipung said his group of 69 families still refused to take any compensation offered by Lapindo.

    “They tried to first intimidate us then bribe us so we would take the compensation and sell our land.”

    He said further he was once visited by a stranger armed with a pistol and offered a bribe to stop encouraging other residents to decline Lapindo’s compensation offer. Despite his efforts, most disaster victims have accepted the initial compensation from the company, including some Jatirejo villagers.

    According to the two-phased offer, Lapindo paid out 20 percent of the full compensation in advance to all residents. Those with deeds were supposed to receive the remaining 80 percent in cash by June 2008; those without, should have received an offer of housing.

    However, Lapindo switched the second cash disbursement for titled victims with a new offer of existing housing in the Kahuripan Nirvana Village housing complex located in the Surabaya outskirts.

    Lapindo was supposed to pay the 80 percent in the form of land and housing only to people without land deeds.

    Some victims have rejected the offer because they feel living in a housing complex would disrupt their culture and traditions. “A housing complex doesn’t suit us because we used to live in the village far from the city and we depend on vast areas of land for our farming,” said Pitanto, a leader of the Renokenongo mudflow-victim group.

    The villagers have instead demanded Lapindo compensate them with land and housing of the same value that they lost, not with cash.

    “We ended up accepting the worst possible compensation scheme because of the pressure of trying to make ends meet,” Pitanto said.

    The compensation process is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Most of the mudflow victims hope either Lapindo or the government will pay the compensation soon so they can use it to buy land, rebuild their villages and start all over again.

    Faisal Maliki Baskoro, The Jakarta Post

    Sumber: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/13/victims-refuse-sell-muddy-land-lapindo.html

  • 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 a major role in wrecking the country’s stock market, which has been closed for three days.

    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 a major role in wrecking the country’s stock market, which has been closed for three days.

    Six companies controlled by the powerful Bakrie Group were suspended from trading Tuesday on the Indonesia Stock Exchange in the wake of wild gyrations in prices that drove the group’s shares down by 30 percent.

    The exchange has ordered a probe into trading of the shares, with traders and analysts openly saying the stocks had been manipulated to drive up their price. Lenders to the Bakrie Group, wary after being burnt the first time his empire collapsed after the 1997 Asian financial crisis, are believed to have sought his family companies’ stock as collateral. The stock comes with stringent conditions and bankers worry that some loan covenants may be triggered if the stock remains untradeable. The group has not disclosed what the conditions of group loans are.

    Given Bakrie’s political clout and the fact that his companies have routinely escaped scrutiny by government officials, it is questionable how far the investigation will go. However, the disastrous blowout of a Bakrie-controlled gas well two years ago and the environmental damage it did, plus other problems, may have made him less than welcome in the cabinet of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who has made reducing corruption a major goal of his administration. The country’s indefatigable Corruption Eradication Commission has been arresting politicians right and left.

    The exchange’s benchmark composite index plummeted more than 21 percent this week, the biggest three-day fall in 20 years as major foreign investors pulled back from emerging markets, and particularly those as dicey as Indonesia’s. The Jakarta Stock Exchange was Asia’s worst-performing market before exchange president Erry Firmansyah shut it Wednesday. There was hope that it would reopen on Friday, but Firmansyah told reporters it would remain closed to give investors a chance to “calm down before they make decisions.”

    While suspicion has focused on the Bakrie-owned PT Bumi Resources Tbk, the country’s largest coal miner, it has also shone a spotlight on the Jakarta Stock Exchange as well, which has often been likened to a gaming casino rather than a rational market, with rampant insider trading and traders taking control of blocks of stock in so-called “pump and dump” pyramid selling games between them to drive up the price and draw in retail investors. A classic game is to drive up the price of a stock by selling it between each other until enough unsuspecting investors have been drawn in, then to sell and get out, watching the price drop precipitately.

    PT Agis Tbk, a general trading and electronics company, is a case in point. In June of 2007, Agis was responsible for the collapse of the composite index when 20 brokerages defaulted on trades in the company’s shares worth Rp23 billion. Agis’s share price had risen from Rp300 to Rp4,000 in less than six months before plummeting.

    Similarly, PT Bumi Resources was the focus of hyperactive trading during the runup in commodity prices earlier this year.

    “Among these six companies under the Bakrie Group banner, Bumi Resources is the prima donna,” Sugianto, a market trader with BNI Securities, told local media. Sugianto noted that trading in Bumi Resources accounted for almost 30 percent of the movement in the index every month.

    Although in June soaring coal prices pushed Bumi up to make it the largest capitalized company on the exchange, its shares have plunged 75 percent since hitting a record high of Rp8,750 on June 10.

    Bayburs Alfaris, an independent market analyst, said trading in Bumi was dominated by so-called “market makers,” who are able to drive prices up or down. “It was the market makers who drove Bumi’s stock price on the exchange,” Alfaris said, calling the stock a “beautiful play” during its heyday.

    Bumi was trading at Rp950 on January 2 before it began its exponential, almost ten-fold rise. Apart from the uptrend in commodity prices, Alfaris said, the increase in Bumi’s stock price helped it succeed in its bid to acquire Australia-listed Herald Resources Ltd.

    Herald’s main asset is its 80 percent interest in the undeveloped Dairi lead and zinc mine, which is awaiting a permit before construction work can start. The Indonesian state-controlled nickel producer PT Aneka Tambang Tbk owns the other 20 percent.

    Both Alfaris and Sugianto said they are suspicious about the trading in Bumi stock movements, although they caution that it appeared to have been done within market rules.

    “What we see is that the market makers maintained the movement of prices within the range permitted by the market rules,” Alfaris said. “While it appeared to be real, in reality it was all artificial.”

    “Bakrie Group stocks have always been the target of speculators,” Sugianto said. “They are very risky for serious investors.” He added that Bumi’s stock would likely fall further once trading resumed. “Margin calls will put additional pressure on Bumi’s stock price,” he said.

    Alfaris noted persistent market reports that parent company PT Bakrie & Brothers had defaulted on recent stock-related debts, another factor pushing sentiment down. A briefing by Bakrie that had been planned for Thursday has been rescheduled to next week.

    The Bakrie family, one of Indonesia’s richest, has continued to escape regulatory scrutiny by government officials despite a litany of complaints. The biggest came in May of 2006, when a gas well being drilled near Surabaya by Lapindo Brantas, a subsidiary of the Bakrie family-owned Energi Mega Perseda, blew out into a mud volcano that so far has drowned more than 14,000 homes, 33 schools, 65 mosques, a major toll road and an orphanage and continues to produce more than 20 Olympic swimming pools of stinking mud every day. Lapindo so far has agreed to pay out Rp4 trillion rupiah in compensation to villagers who have lost their homes.

    Asia Sentinel reported on September 22 that mud and gas have continued erupting ever since, defying all efforts to stop it and inundating a vast area of Surabaya. Hundreds have been sent to hospitals with breathing difficulties. Scores of factories have heen closed, at least 90 hectares of paddy fields were ruined and fish farms have been destroyed.

    Nonetheless, Indonesia’s Environment Ministry in September gave the company a green citation for complying with environmental standards. The award prompted embarrassment from officials and was soundly denounced by environmentalists.

    Despite Lapindo’s claim of faultlessness, it is paying Rp4 trillion (US$437 million) in compensation to villagers who lost their homes to the mudflow. Most people seem to have received 20 percent of their payment but they are still waiting on the rest.

    (c) Asia Sentinel

  • Jakarta Post Editorial: The Burning Seat

    Finance Minister Sri Mulyani has been sitting in the hot seat for some time now, and now her seat has now gone from hot to burning since businesspeople and politicians with vested interests have been making attempts to unseat her. We earnestly hope she will survive this saga.

    The imbroglio, we suspect, is related to what has been going on in the financial market, especially to the Bakrie Group. Many believe Bakrie is now in a make-or-break situation as it struggles to meet huge obligations to its creditors who hold shares in its subsidiary companies as collateral.

    Now that the value of this collateral has dropped significantly, Bakrie is trying to sell off its assets to repay $1.2 billion worth of debts that will mature between the end of this year and early next year.

    As the situation worsens, the Bakrie Group, controlled by the family of Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Aburizal Bakrie, may make a desperate attempt to get President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to bail them out using either state money or funds from state companies.

    It seems that most cabinet ministers and even Vice President Jusuf Kalla have made no objections to such a move. But Finance Minister Sri Mulyani, who holds the key to the state coffers, differs and even resists a move that smacks of a raw deal.

    We are concerned whether Sri Mulyani will be able to maintain her strong stance in the face of mounting pressure from various quarters. Because of her persistent anti-graft reform drive at the ministry, she has established more enemies than anyone else in her position previously.

    Her reform of the customs office at Indonesia’s largest port, Tanjung Priok, has cost certain businesspeople dearly. Those who once took an easy route by bribing customs officials to get their goods out of the customs area quickly (often by smuggling or under-invoicing imports), now find it much tougher to slip through.

    Worse, several parties now claim that customs officials who were dissatisfied with Mulyani’s work have intentionally slowed their pace of work. This development has impacted honest businesspeople who must bear higher capital costs because of the slowed movement of their goods. So now both kinds of businesspeople have a reason to dislike her.

    Mulyani’s anti-graft reforms at the tax office have also taken their toll. One good example is the much-publicized zealous efforts of the tax office to uncover the suspected tax evasion of a palm oil company belonging to Raja Garuda Mas Group, controlled by powerful businessman Sukanto Tanoto.

    Mulyani has also engaged in confrontations with certain coal producers, asking the immigration office to impose travel bans on businesspeople with coal interests who owed the state unpaid royalties and taxes. One such coal company belongs to the Bakrie Group.

    But Mulyani had clashed with the Bakrie Group before this, when, through the Capital Market Supervisory Agency, she rejected a plan by Bakrie’s oil and gas entity, Energi Mega Persada, to spin-off Lapindo Brantas (which had created massive problems in Sidoarjo resulting from an uncontrolled mudflow that is believed to have resulted from Lapindo drilling activities there). This case was finally resolved, with Energi allowed to sell Lapindo to wash its hands of an uncertain future liability.

    And now, Mulyani is clashing with Bakrie again. This time, however the clash looks to be protracted, as Bakrie is in a do-or-die situation where it needs to attract buyers or get help from the state or it will face bankruptcy or hostile takeover. Mulyani has said if companies must go bust, then let them be. After all, it is their fault, and why should the government come to rescue them.

    Because of her persistence in protecting the state budget from abuse, Mulyani’s enemies have launched a covert operation to unseat her. In the public domain, concerted efforts have been made to discredit Mulyani — claiming she is “un-nationalistic” for her unwillingness to help out local indigenous businesspeople. Some of these people have even accused her of being a running dog for the International Monetary Fund, where she once served as an executive director.

    On the contrary, by acting firmly to clean up the customs and tax offices, by penalizing corrupt businesspeople and by acting firmly to defend the state budget from abuse, we can see Mulyani is in fact more nationalistic than those who have attempted to discredit her.

    The current political situation may present itself to President Yudhoyono as a big dilemma: whether to help his business friends, or to side with the impeccable and respected finance minister. But the choice is really clear.

    Thu, 10/23/2008 11:04 AM  |  Opinion | The Jakarta Post

    Sumber: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/10/23/editorial-the-burning-seat.html

  • Pembuangan Lumpur Lapindo Ke Laut Tak Menyelesaikan Masalah

    korbanlumpur.info – Kalangan pemerhati lingkungan dan banyak pihak menolak rencana pemerintah yang berencana mengalirkan lumpur Lapindo ke laut melaui kanal buatan. Seperti dalam pertemuan dengan Ketua Tim Ad Hoc Pelanggaran HAM lumpur Lapindo, Syafrudin Ngulma Simeulue di ruang pleno Komnas HAM hari ini (17/9).

    Seperti diketahui, pemerintah berencana membuang langsung lumpur Lapindo ke laut tanpa melalui Kali Porong setelah meyakini lumpur Lapindo tak bisa dihentikan. rencananya akan dibuat kanal selebar 200 meter dengan ketinggian kanal 15 meter yang panjangnya  14,6 kilometer.

    Direktur Eksekutif Nasional WALHI, Berry Nahdian Furqan mengatakan pembuangan lumpur Lapindo itu akan membuat paparan lumpur akan semakin meluas. “Selat madura itu arus lautnya bergerak,  jadi lumpur akan menyebar ke daerah yang lebih luas. Ini harus ditolak,” kata dia. Jika pemerintah masih memaksa pembuangan itu, menurutnya Pemerintah sudah bisa dikategorikan sebagai penjahat lingkungan. Karena upaya pemerintah itu akan merusak lingkungan.

    Sementara sudut pandang lain dikemukakan Mustiko Saleh. Menurut ahli pengeboran yang mantan wakil Direktur Pertamina ini langkah pemerintah itu adalah usaha yang mubazir, alias sia-sia. Sebab menurut dia lumpur lapindo itu bukan lumpur homogen, melainkan campuran air dan partikel yang digerus dari dalam bumi. “Air dan partikel itu akan pisah, jadi airnya akan mengalir dan partikelnya akan mengendap. Coba lihat Sungai Porong, endapannya itu tidak terbawa air,” ungkapnya. Ia menambahkan kalau di Kali Porong saja lumpur tidak jalan apalagi di kanal yang tidak punya air.

    Mustiko juga menjelaskan usaha pemerintah itu tidak menyelesaikan masalah, selama sumber lumpur tidak ditutup. Menurutnya ada tiga alternatif yang bisa untuk menutup lumpur yaitu penyuntikan lumpur berat, mengeluarkan air dan meledakkan lapisan tanah. “Berdasarkan pengalaman saya dan temen-teman di Drilling Engineer Club, semburan seperti ini bisa ditutup,” ujar dia. Ia juga menyesalkan pernyataan pemerintah yang mengatakan lumpur Lapindo sudah tak dapat diatasi. [navy]

  • Surat Terbuka Kepada Presiden RI

    Surat Terbuka Kepada Presiden RI

    Korban Lapindo Menagih Janji

    Yang terhormat Presiden Republik Indonesia selaku pelayan rakyat Indonesia. Saya bertindak untuk dan atas nama korban lumpur Lapindo dengan kuasa kemanusiaan, bermateraikan lembaran kristal air mata korban Lapindo yang telah kering, yang sebentar lagi dapat berubah mencair mendidih, melebihi panas lumpur Lapindo.

    Bapak Presiden, korban Lapindo selama ini bernasib tidak sebaik yang diiklankan di media massa. Saya hanya mengingatkan bahwa Lapindo Brantas Inc telah membuat kesepakatan penyelesaian dengan pemerintah sehingga terbit Peraturan Presiden No. 14 Tahun 2007 (Perpres No. 14 / 2007).

    Pasal 15 Perpres itu menentukan:

    Dalam rangka penanganan masalah sosial kemasyarakatan, PT Lapindo Brantas membeli tanah dan bangunan masyarakat yang terkena luapan lumpur Sidoarjo dengan pembayaran secara bertahap, sesuai dengan peta area terdampak tanggal 22 Maret 2007 dengan akta jual-beli bukti kepemilikan tanah yang mencantumkan luas tanah dan lokasi yang disahkan oleh Pemerintah (ayat 1).

    Pembayaran bertahap yang dimaksud, seperti yang telah disetujui dan dilaksanakan pada daerah yang termasuk dalam peta area terdampak 4 Desember 2006, 20% (dua puluh perseratus) dibayarkan di muka dan sisanya dibayarkan paling lambat sebulan sebelum masa kontrak rumah 2 (dua) tahun habis (ayat 2).

    Dahulu, untuk memperoleh pembayaran 20 persen jual-beli tanah dan rumah korban Lapindo tersebut harus melalui aksi massa. Sekarang, ketika dua tahun kontrak rumah korban Lapindo berlalu, PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya (yang ditunjuk Lapindo Brantas Inc) tidak bersedia membayar 80 persen terhadap tanah-tanah yang belum bersertifikat (petok D, leter C, gogol dan yasan). Perlu saya tekankan lagi, cara penyelesaian sosial korban Lapindo adalah “jual-beli” tanah dan rumah korban yang kini telah berubah menjadi kekayaan danau lumpur itu.

    Bapak Presiden, mengapa PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya tidak mau membayar untuk melunasi sisa pembayaran 80 persen kepada korban Lapindo yang tanahnya belum bersertifikat? Padahal diantara mereka telah menandatangani Ikatan Perjanjian Jual Beli (IPJB)? Hal itu disebabkan PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya menuruti pendapat notaris/pejabat pembuat akte tanah (PPAT) yang digunakannya.

    Saya mengingatkan kilas balik perjalanan kesepakatan segitiga antara pemerintah, Lapindo Brantas Inc dengan korban Lapindo. Pada 24 April 2007 korban Lapindo dari Perumahan Tanggung Angin Sejahtera (Perumtas) I Sidoarjo menghadap Wakil Presiden RI yang mewakili Bapak Presiden. Dalam pertemuan itu hadir Menkokesra, Menteri Pekerjaan Umum, Gubernur DKI Jakarta dan Direktur Utama Bank Tabungan Negara (BTN).

    Risalah Rapat 24 April 2004 yang dipimpin Bapak M. Jusuf Kalla itu menyepakati sisa pembayaran sebesar 80 persen dilakukan bersama dengan pembayaran kepada masyarakat di empat desa (menurut Peta Wilayah Terdampak 22 Maret 2007) pada bulan April 2008. Pak Presiden, sekarang ini sudah bulan Agustus 2008, bulan kemerdekaan, tapi korban Lapindo masih jauh dari merdeka.

    Soal tanah-tanah yang belum bersertifikat, pada tanggal 2 Mei 2007 telah disepakati oleh perwakilan korban Lapindo, Menteri Sosial, Badan Penanggulangan Lumpur Sidoarjo (BPLS), Badan Pertanahan Nasional (BPN), Ketua DPRD Kabupaten Sidoarjo dan PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya, yang intinya menentukan bahwa tanah-tanah petok D, leter C, SK gogol diperlakukan sama dengan tanah-tanah bersertifikat. Pak Presiden, mayoritas tanah korban Lapindo belum bersertifikat.

    Selepas dari penandatanganan Risalah Kesepakatan pertemuan tersebut, PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya kembali ingkar. Setelah mulai jatuh tempo pembayaran 80 persen (bertahap, mulai April 2008), lagu lamanya dinyanyikan lagi: PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya tidak mau membayar. PT. Minarak Lapindo hanya mau membayar rumah yang telah tenggelam, sedangkan tanahnya akan diganti dengan tanah kaplingan (bekas sawah) yang disediakan oleh perusahaan lain di bawah Grup Bakrie. Sedangkan uang muka 20 persen tadi dianggap hibah kepada warga korban Lapindo.

    Kelihatannya menguntungkan korban Lapindo, tapi kenyatannya tidak sebab tanah kaplingan penggantinya itu masih belum jelas, penyerahannya 8 bulan hingga setahun, dan harga asalnya hanya sekitar Rp. 200 ribu/m2, sedangkan tanah pemukiman/pekarangan korban Lapindo telah disepakati Rp. 1 juta/m2. Meskipun ada janji bahwa nantinya korban Lapindo boleh menjual tanah pengganti itu seharga Rp. 1 juta/m2 tetapi itu sudah menyimpang dari pasal 15 Perpres No. 14/2007.

    Tak ada kepastian bahwa PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya akan patuh dengan perjanjian yang baru itu, sebab PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya sudah ingkar dengan beberapa kesepakatan yang telah dibuat dan tidak patuh dengan pasal 15 Perpres No. 14/2007 itu. Dengan pasal 15 Peraturan Presiden No. 14 / 2007 (yang sudah dikuatkan putusan MA No. 24 P/HUM/2007) saja ingkar, apalagi dengan kesepakatan yang tak ada dasar hukumnya?

    Pak Presiden, dalam pertemuan dengan Bupati Sidoarjo, BPLS dan BPN Kabupaten Sidoarjo pada 5 Agustus 2008 yang lalu PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya tidak hadir. BPN sendiri menyatakan bahwa tanah-tanah petok D, leter C, gogol dan yasan bisa dibuatkan akte jual beli (AJB). BPN sudah mengeluarkan petunjuk pelaksanaan tanggal 24 Maret 2008. Jadi, secara hukum administrasi negara sudah tidak ada kendala. Jika PT. Minarak Lapindo tidak patuh kepada Perpres No. 14/2007 itu, apakah Bapak Presiden hanya akan diam saja menonton penderitaan korban Lapindo?

    Apakah pasal 15 Perpres No. 14/2007 itu masih berlaku?

    Kalau ada yang mengatakan bahwa dengan dibayarkannya 20 persen tanah pertama dua tahun lalu itu warga korban Lapindo sudah makmur, itu kebohongan besar. Mayoritas mereka kehilangan pekerjaan dan mulai mencari pekerjaan baru dan banyak yang menanggung utang.

    Dalam pertemuan dengan Komnas HAM tanggal 1 Mei 2008 di Pendopo Kecamatan Tanggulangin Sidoarjo, wakil korban lumpur lapindo dari Gabungan Korban Lumpur Lapindo (GKLL) yang telah memberikan mandat kepada Emha Ainun Nadjib mengatakan bahwa apabila PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya tidak bersedia membayar sisa 80 persen itu maka di Sidoarjo akan terjadi banyak gelandangan sebab rata-rata korban Lapindo terlanjur menanggung utang sebab berharap dari pembayaran 80 persen itu.

    Perlu Bapak Presiden ketahui, akibat PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya yang membangkang jatuh tempo pembayaran sesuai pasal 15 ayat (2) Perpres No. 14/2007, kini masyarakat korban Lapindo terpecah-belah, saling bermusuhan akibat munculnya cara-cara baru di luar cara menurut pasal 15 Perpres No. 14 / 2007. GKLL itu pecah, muncul organisasi baru bernama Gerakan Pendukung Perpres No. 14/2007 (GEPPRES).

    Munculnya cara-cara penyelesaian di luar pasal 15 Perpres No. 14 / 2007 itu akibat pemerintah yang tidak tegas kepada PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya yang mempersulit penyelesaian sosial itu padahal dasar hukumnya sudah jelas. Sekali lagi, pemerintah tidak tegas untuk memaksa pihak Lapindo. Tetapi bagaimana nasib korban Lapindo yang membuat kesepakatan di luar pasal 15 Perpres No. 14/2007 jika kelak PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya atau perusahaan pengembang yang menyediakan tanah pengganti itu ingkar? Padahal cara penyelesaian masalah sosial yang sudah ditentukan itu tidak murni bersifat perdata, tetapi terkandung kewajiban pemerintah memenuhi hak asasi manusia berdasarkan pasal 28 I ayat (4).

    Pak Presiden. Bahkan ada ratusan kepala keluarga korban Lapindo yang belum menerima pembayaran 20 persen dengan berbagai alasan, tanpa penyelesaian. PT. Minarak Lapindo juga mengingkari kesepakatannya dengan ratusan kepala keluarga korban Lapindo pengontrak rumah (yang tak punya tanah dan rumah sendiri).

    Jika diurai, masih ada banyak masalah lainnya, termasuk masalah kesehatan masyarakat sebab menurut temuan Tim Kajian Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Timur, konsentrasi gas hidrokarbon di daerah sekitar semburan lumpur Lapindo mencapai 55.000 ppm, padahal ambang batas toleransinya adalah 0,24 ppm. Kasihan para penduduk korban, terutama anak-anak mereka yang masih mempunyai masa depan, jangan sampai masa depan mereka rusak gara-gara pemerintah tidak cepat dan tepat untuk menyelesaian persoalan korban Lapindo itu.

    Masyarakat korban Lapindo telah begitu sabar. Meski menderita kerugian materiil dan imateriil yang tak terkira besarnya, mereka cukup patuh dengan Perpres No. 14/2007 yang hanya mengharuskan jual-beli tanah dan rumah korban lumpur yang tenggelam. Bahkan mereka telah diikat oleh PT. Minarak Lapindo Jaya dalam perjanjian dan pernyataan agar mengakui bahwa semburan lumpur itu bencana alam dan mereka tidak boleh menuntut Lapindo secara perdata dan pidana. Meski tidak tahu arti semua itu, mereka mau menandatangani pernyataan dan perjanjian seperti itu.

    Surat ini saya sampaikan secara terbuka, agar dapat sampai dan dibaca Pak Presiden dan banyak orang, bahwa itulah yang terjadi, tidak seindah yang diiklankan di media massa.

    Demikian surat ini, mohon agar negara ini tetap berdiri dalam kemerdekaan, tidak tenggelam menjadi Republik Lumpur Lapindo.

    Hormat saya, pesuruh sebagian korban Lapindo.

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