Indonesia Government Stated That "TIDAK BISA MENUTUP LUMPUR LAPINDO"

On September, 11th 2008, Indonesia government had made a statement that Lumpur Lapindo – Lapindo mudflows at Porong Village, Sidoarjo – cannot be stopped !

Indonesia government’s decision to give up was based on expert informations specially geologists that stated that Lapindo Mudflows Disaster was caused by earthquake and the mudflows cannot be stopped….


It has been estimated that the Lapindo mudflows at Porong Village, Sidoarjo, East Java, cannot be stopped, Tempo Interactive reported. The Indonesian Environmental Forum (Walhi) is reported to sue gas exploration company PT Lapindo Brantas over the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java.
The mudflow, which has been gushing since May 29 last year, has killed 13 people and injured scores more. Many blame the disaster on exploration by Lapindo Brantas Inc.
Around 7,000 residents from the complex have been living in shelters at Baru Porong market since the area was inundated by the mudflow.

According to a geology expert, the mudflows will only stop if there were a hydrostatic equilibrium.

James Mori, a geology expert from Kyoto University, Japan, stated he could not be certain when the mudflows would end.

“It could be ten years, or even more. We do not know,” he said after an international conference on the Lapindo mudflows at the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology yesterday.

According to him, the mud volcano that exists in Sidoarjo is the first in the world.






Aerial view of the mud gushing out of a Lapindo Brantas Inc. gas exploration well in Sidoarjo, East Java. According to Greenpeace, the situation is slipping beyond control and called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to hold Lapindo and its shareholders, Bakrie Group, Santos of Australia and Medco Group, fully accountable for one of Indonesia's worst industrial disaster. (greenpeace)

Then, for how long thousands people of sidoarjo specially porong village will be suffer?

Is is time for quit?

Cause there are other expert (drilling engineer) opinion, that had a different opinion with the geologists (Salahuddin Wahid - Kompas 20 September 2008 - opini)

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Earthquake at Aceh

10 September 2008

A moderate 5.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Indonesia's Sumatra island on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage, geologists said.

The quake hit at 10.00am (1300 AEST), 30km southwest of Sinabang in Aceh province, the Indonesian meteorology and geophysics agency said via text message.

The quake struck at sea at a depth of 10km but no tsunami warning has been issued, agency head Suharjono told AFP.

"Up to now we have not received any reports of damage from Sinabang city," he said.
At least 23 people died and thousands of homes were damaged last September when an 8.4-magnitude quake hit West Sumatra and other areas.

Indonesia was the nation worst hit by the earthquake-triggered Asian tsunami in December 2004 that killed 168,000 people in the country's Aceh province.

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