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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: I remember Joko âJokowiâ Widodoâs visit to Sidoarjo, when he said that should he become president, he would ensure that the people affected would be compensated
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our 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:
I remember Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo's visit to Sidoarjo, when he said that should he become president, he would ensure that the people affected would be compensated.
I don't think he meant for the funds to come from government coffers. Guess who's going to pick up the tab?
Valky Rie
I quote: 'This triggered speculation that Lapindo may have been negligent during its drilling process.'
The company was found to be negligent in the use of required safety equipment, but it found some scientists willing to disagree with all the other specialist scientists who insisted that the disaster had been caused by Lapindo's actions.
That prevented the case from coming to court.
B. Bali
Allow me to explain something as a geophysicist: Every year, geodynamics move about 15 centimeters of the Australian tectonic plate north, where it melts underneath Java and Sumatra.
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:
This has been going on for millions of years and in another 200 million years, the entire land mass of Australia will have sunk beneath Indonesia.
This process is what causes tectonic movements/earthquakes along the south of Java and southwestern regions of Sumatra. It has also created dangerous tectono-volcanic mountains in the region, such as Mount Krakatao. However, there is no tectonic fault connecting Yogyakarta with Sidoarjo!
If there had been a connecting fault and the mud had been triggered by an earthquake in Yogyakarta, the earthquake would have had to be tremendous ' on a scale never before seen in modern times. Also, such a quake would have destroyed everything between Yogyakarta and Sidoarjo. But we know that didn't happen.
If Lapindo's scientists insist that the connection is not in the Earth's crust but deeper, in the subsurface inside the Earth's mantle, to explain an event in Yogyakarta causing such an impact in a place as far away as Sidoarjo, again that event would have had to be on a super-massive scale. It would also have caused all the tectono-volcanic mountains between Yogyakarta and Sidoarjo to start rumbling as well. But this has never happened in human history.
I call on all The Jakarta Post's journalists to fight for justice for the Lapindo mudflow victims.
Iau Aro
