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Text your say: Justice for Lapindo victims
Your comments on the fate of the people in Sidoarjo, East Java, who are still seeking justice as many have not received compensation from PT Lapindo Brantas, the company deemed responsible for the mudflow, which began in 2006:Forget the past; it was an accident
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strong>Your comments on the fate of the people in Sidoarjo, East Java, who are still seeking justice as many have not received compensation from PT Lapindo Brantas, the company deemed responsible for the mudflow, which began in 2006:
Forget the past; it was an accident. Really?!
Eddy Arjuna
I feel sorry for them because I doubt they'll ever see a penny. Why is justice taking so long?
Oh wait, they're being paid. Never mind.
Philippe Marland
Lapindo is responsible for paying compensation to all the mudflow victims. The Sidoarjo government needs to force the company to pay up as soon as possible.
Abdul Rahim
Tangerang, Banten
It is clear that Lapindo is responsible for this tragedy. The government should act without further delay.
Richard
I am a well-site geologist and I work on rigs both larger and smaller than Lapindo Brantas' rig, and my job is to ensure that a situation like this never occurs on my rigs.
Within the first day of the mudflow erupting in Sidoardjo, I saw evidence of Lapindo's responsibility for the disaster in the form of daily drill reports and two letters from PT Medco Energi to Lapindo with their concerns of a potential blowout, before it happened, due to Lapindo's careless and irresponsible drilling methods.
We can only hope that president-elect Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo will view this problem in the correct light, instead of blindly defending the wealthy and powerful culprits, including investigating the courts that oversaw this gross miscarriage of justice.
Brien
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