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  • Geologists Blame Gas Drilling for Indonesia Mud Disaster

    A meeting of leading geologists has concluded that an Indonesian mud volcano which erupted in May 2006, triggering a social and environmental disaster, was caused by nearby drilling for gas, a British university said on Thursday. The volcano, named Lusi, has swamped 12 villages and displaced around 30,000 people and continues to spew boiling mud…

  • ANTARA – Kaukus DPR Desak Pemerintah Selesaikan Masalah Lapindo

    Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Sejumlah anggota DPR yang tergabung dalam Kaukus Anggota DPR dari Dapil Jawa Timur I ( Surabaya dan Sidoarjo) mendesak pemerintah agar empat desa yang belum masuk dalam peta terdampak lumpur Lapindo segera masuk dalam anggaran APBN 2009. Salah seorang juru bicara kaukus itu, Suripto, kepada pers di ruang wartawan DPR Jakarta,…

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

    Jakarta (ANTARA News) – Semburan lumpur panas di Sidoarjo diprediksi sebagai proses pembentukan gunung lumpur (mud volcano) yang bisa berlangsung hingga 140 tahun. "Lumpur Sidoarjo akan menjadi ‘natural event’ yang bisa berlangsung 6-140 tahun, namun perkiraan yang baik adalah 32 tahun," jelas Prof. Richard Swarbrick dari Geopressure Technology Ltd Science Labs, Durham, Inggris, saat berbicara…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Pembuangan Lumpur Lapindo Ke Laut Tak Menyelesaikan Masalah

    Usaha pemerintah tidak akan menyelesaikan masalah selama sumber lumpur tidak ditutup.

  • Surat Terbuka Kepada Presiden RI

    Surat Terbuka Kepada Presiden RI

    Lapindo mengingkari beberapa kesepakatan yang telah dibuat dan tidak patuh pada Perpres No. 14/2007.

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