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Thursday, May 29, 2014

Villagers Porong Commemorating 8 year mudflow disaster . melarung action ogoh-ogoh shaped Bakrie

Villagers Porong Commemorating 8 year mudflow disaster . melarung action ogoh-ogoh shaped Bakrie
Locals melarung ogoh-ogoh into pools of mud , marking the anniversary of eight years of the Lapindo mudflow disaster , Thursday, May 29, 2014 ( Photo : VOA / Peter Riski )


In addition to prayer , victims of Lapindo mudflow with activist environmentalists melarung action ogoh-ogoh shaped Bakrie, owner of Lapindo Brantas , Thursday ( 29/5 ) .

Thursday, May 29 is even eight years of the Lapindo mudflow , submerging thousands of homes and dozens of villages in the area surrounding Porong . Locals hold prayer and action concerns , on top of the dike Lapindo mud ponds .

Maskur said , prayer is done to honor and pray for the spirits of the ancestors , whose tomb was buried in the mud ponds .

"God willing , this is because although historic , it should be celebrated every year . Remembering , remembering the services , due to the inheritance of our ancestors . So we can not just eliminate the ( traditional prayer ) , " said Maskur .

In addition to prayer , victims of Lapindo mudflow with activist environmentalists action ogoh-ogoh shaped melarung owner Lapindo Brantas , the Bakrie, is considered responsible for the human tragedy experienced by residents of Sidoarjo .

Kusro , a Lapindo mudflow victims who often come to the top of the embankment hope , no acceleration of payment of land compensation and that his house has been drowned by the mud , in order to continue living better . In addition to losing their homes and homeland , Kusro also have to lose their jobs as a farmer , and now have to switch professions as itinerant herbalist to provide for the family .
 
" New to 75 percent of the compensation payment . The rest lived 50 million which has not been paid by Lapindo , "says Kusro in the local language .

The urge to immediately pay compensation payment , because other people are affected by mud but is outside the map area affected , compensation payments have been paid by the government .

Supari , other Lapindo mudflow victims called for the government should be fair to accelerate the payment of compensation directly affected residents , who for eight years had to leave the house and have not yet received a clear life due compensation .

" Whoever pays , even as the country even though it is private , we ndak see from there , which is important finish . Do we contrived social jealousy , do not hurt us and contrived , with conditions outside the dike that ( house ) can still be used used bed rest , use a variety of it can still be used , it is fully paid for , even though use of state funds and money who it is . Why should not the eight years this resolved , " Supari said .

While the eight -year commemoration of the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo also be an opportunity for alumni of the Institute of Technology ( ITS ) Surabaya , Djaja Laksana to continue to call for a stop mudflow using Bernoulli dam work .

Djaja Like a mudflow that since the beginning of the stop motion mud continued to express hope that the new government later in good faith to want to stop the mud flow , which he said can be terminated within six months when he was entrusted .

"If all the current estimate of six months can be , for sure . All Original smoothly no interference and it was all smooth , six months . I do not think I need to ask , I think the new government already know , but if you do not know me would ask , " Like a Djaja said . VOA

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