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Text your say: Wasior disaster
Your comments on the government’s sluggish response to flashfloods in Wasior, West Papua, that killed about 150 people
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Your comments on the government’s sluggish response to flashfloods in Wasior, West Papua, that killed about 150 people.
It’s not the government but SBY that is the target.
They always blame SBY for sluggish responses to disasters that occur not only in Indonesia but in the other parts of the world as well.
E. Nurdin
Jakarta
Deaths could have been avoided. The government is too complacent about the impact of the environment on society.
Zashnain Zainal
Kuala Lumpur
It’s very bad news. Stop illegal logging if you want to live longer.
Whien
Surakarta, Central Java
It’s far away, isn’t it?
Taco F de Vries
Banda Aceh
It is the stupidity and/or the corruption in the government institutions concerned that caused the Wasior flooding and other similar disasters.
Their salaries (from the ministers down to the bottom) should be cut commensurate to the damage suffered by the people they serve.
Moeljono Adikoesoemo
Jakarta
It has always been this way: The government never pays too much attention to Papua.
The government has this wrong-headed idea about “centralization” which focuses on Java.
Papua, being Indonesia’s farthest island, never gets enough attention, for example, in the Freeport case.
I am not surprised that the government wasn’t able to respond quickly.
This is a consequence of the “centralization” ideology that the government has adopted which has affected the Papuan government.
We can’t change the past. If the government wasn’t able to rescue people this time, so be it. Instead, the government can learn from this experience.
After being criticized, the government may improve its performance through quicker responses if
things like this happen again in the future.
Abigail Gunarso
Surabaya
It is always predictable in this country that the government will blame and accuse others for its own mistaken policies.
It is also no wonder that government will later come to the conclusion that the mess had been created by locals.
D. Arsefelft
Jakarta
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