It was a combination of carelessness and corruption.

Amril Joko

It was surely human errors.

Ester Setiadarma

Many people believe it was God’s will, but actually it was government incompetence.

Tim Bernard

It is simply corruption. It is not prejudice but there must be something wrong behind the accident, which some experts say abnormal considering that the bridge has only been in use for 10 years.

Mohammed Zidane

Corruption sabotaged the bridge.

Devi Sinaga

Corruption is behind it. If the people have moral, they would do the right things and this incident would not have happened.

Iriawan Kamal Thalib

The architect was not sophisticated and of course corruption has cut funds allocated for the construction of the bridge and this incident was the result.

Anantama Virgiawan

This is what happens when corruption and cronyism is involved in the construction of government bridges. Inferior workmanship is the reason for this collapse. Who inspected this site while it was being built? Yes, the government!

What will happen when these same companies start building nuclear power plants? Probably the same company will get the bid for that, too.

Paul

Typically, collapses of this magnitude undergo investigations lasting a year or more, for example the Minneapolis Highway Bridge collapse or the tower crane collapse in New York City.

Structural analysis, geotechnical investigation, maintenance, materials technology, construction issues and much more may have contributed to the collapse. If lessons are to be learned to avoid future mistakes, it is best for the investigation to be thorough and open.

James Cohen, PE

Where are all of the ITB graduates or UI graduates, or people from the US and/or EU universities? Certainly they are not employed within ministries in Indonesia. We all are already sick and worried boarding an airplane in Indonesia or boarding a ferry boat for that matter.

Do we now also have to stop for every bridge in Indonesia and start praying that we may safely reach the other side?

Where are all those A-1 contractors and consulting engineers, government inspectors and the like?

 Jan R. Scheele

This happens all over the world — even in developed countries. Such catastrophes can be a result of human error or
from nature.

Even developed nations like Japan, the US, etc, can’t forecast what is really happening inside the Earth or above it — so we should do our best and then wait and see.

E. Nurdin
Jakarta

The bridge was hit at several occasions by huge coal barges that sail down the river without any pilots guiding them or additional tugboats to avoid those monsters straying away under the strong river current.

All that plus the obvious disregard by those who are supposed to have been taking care of the soundness of bridges around the country are a bunch of people who really need to be on the chopping board.

Sharia law or Chinese firing squad may be the answer for those are responsible. Not just expensive lawyers and corrupt judges.

Jean Michel
Jakarta

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