Sedikit menyimpang,
Tadi malam musibah Lusi ditayangkan di acara 60 Minutes nya channel 9
Australia.
Seperti biasa fokus bahasannya lebih pada sisi human interest terutama
masalah lebih dari 40 ribu pengungsi yang sampai sekarang belum terurus
dengan baik serta adanya Australian connection dalam bentuk participating
interest Santos di sini.
Dari sisi sudut pandang, acara ini jelas-jelas mengopinikan bahwa Lusi
adalah kesalahan drilling dari Lapindo.
Salah satunya disebutkan: 'The world's top experts agree this was the
straight out human error — most likely a failure to shore up the walls of
the bore hole with a protective casing. '.......mungkin ini maksudnya adalah
'top expert' yang gak hadir dalam seminar Lusi di BPPT....
Buat saya ada satu hal yang sangat mengganggu: Narasumber utama dalam
acara ini adalah Dr Mark Tingay dari Adelaide Uni. Sependek pengetahuan
saya, belum pernah dengar Pak Tingay ini melakukan penelitian di Sidoardjo.
Kalau lihat lontaran2 beliau, itu keliahatannya banyak yang langsung diambil
dari berbagai diskusi diberbagai milisout dari nya Pak Dhe Vicki.
Samasekali gak ada pendapat dari geologist Indonesia apalagi pendapat
resmi tim IAGI. Yang sudah berbulan-bulan banting tulang melakukan
penelitian disana.
Kesimpulan dan moral of the story: Kita belum dianggep.......
Salam
Oki
Unnatural disaster Sunday June 17, 2007
[image: Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia (AAP)]
Reporter: Peter
Overton<http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=264123>
Producers: Howard Sacre
<http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=264627>, Julia
Timms<http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=264640>
*At first, we thought this can't be true, it's like some sort of
pre-historic disaster movie. But it's real all right. A gigantic volcano of
steaming hot mud as far as the eye can see.* It's already swamped a dozen
villages on the Indonesian island of Java - and we mean swamped. Houses,
factories, mosques, everything just swallowed by this relentless tide. Forty
thousand people have been left homeless, without jobs, without hope. And
the really infuriating thing is, geologists are 99 percent certain it's not
a natural disaster. It's man-made. The prime suspect is a big mining
company with strong Australian connections. *Transcript* PETER OVERTON:
The world has never seen anything like this — a gargantuan fountain of mud
gushing from the bowels of the earth. Some days, the crater surges wildly,
on other days it quietens down, but it never stops. Too thick to drain away,
it's burying everything in its path. This is a tragedy of errors backed by
Australian money. A story of cover-up and suffering that goes all the way to
Indonesia's presidential palace. Look — our first glimpse. There it is,
there. DR MARK TINGAY: Yeah, it is a huge, huge eruption. PETER OVERTON:
Those houses would just be inundated inside. DR MARK TINGAY: They are gone
inside. They're just full — full of mud. Three hundred and sixty degrees all
around you for kilometres, is mud. PETER OVERTON: Even for a top
geologist, this site defies belief. Dr Mark Tingay, from Adelaide
University, couldn't wait to see the grand-daddy of all mudflows on
Indonesia's main island of Java, just west of Bali. It's so unpredictable,
we're allowed just a few minutes at the crater. DR MARK TINGAY: It's just
incredible the amount of mud and stuff that's coming out of here — all this
fluid. PETER OVERTON: A boiling, bubbling cauldron, about 100 metres
across. This is extraordinary. DR MARK TINGAY: This is amazing. This is
certainly the biggest mud volcano crater I've ever seen and I've seen some
of the biggest natural ones in the world. PETER OVERTON: How hot is it,
Mark? DR MARK TINGAY: This would be — I'd say the temperature ranges from
about 70 to 100 degrees Celsius so it's very, very hot. You wouldn't want to
put your hand in it! PETER OVERTON: How long can this go for? How long
could this mud keep spewing up from underneath us? DR MARK TINGAY: Well,
geologically, mud volcanoes could go on for hundreds of thousands of years
but, in terms of sort of man-made eruptions like this, the longest we've
seen them go for is over 20 years. PETER OVERTON: No-one knows how it will
end, but we do know how it started — with the mining company's stuff-up.
Here's what happened. This time, last year, there were exploring for natural
gas just to the right of the plume of steam. Around here were rice paddies
and villages — you can see the roof of the local mosque poking up through
the mud just over there. Now, when the drilling got to nearly 3km under the
earth, it struck a high-pressure zone and the result was catastrophic. DR
MARK TINGAY: When they were drilling this well, they have encountered this
chamber, or this very large reservoir of a highly pressured water. They have
lost control there — that water has started to come up the bore hole and
then got into another shallower level, brought up — captured all this mud,
eroded all this mud and clay as its come and then erupted to the surface. So
about 200 metres away from where they were drilling. PETER OVERTON: The
world's top experts agree this was the straight out human error — most
likely a failure to shore up the walls of the bore hole with a protective
casing. DR MARK TINGAY: We're 90 percent certain that this, that the
drilling, is the trigger for this event. PETER OVERTON: So, lives lost,
thousands of lives ruined through ineptitude? DR MARK TINGAY: 'Ineptitude'
is a pretty strong word, Peter. That is a very hard one because we don't
know what the conditions were when they were actually drilling. However,
certainly the only reason you don't set casing is to cut costs. Because it
takes time to set casing and time is money when you're drilling. PETER
OVERTON: When it started a year ago, it was a small geyser of mud and steam
in a rice paddy. After a few days, though, all hell broke loose, causing a
frantic exodus. Levy banks and dams built in great haste collapsed just as
quickly. A year later, 12 villages are buried, 20 factories, roads and rice
fields are inundated and nearly 40,000 people displaced. We're not talking a
trickle of mud here. We're talking about something with enormous power and
force behind it, aren't we? DR MARK TINGAY: The mud is coming up at a
great pressure — rates of 100,000 cubic metres a day. Now, in sort of
layman's terms, that's the equivalent of over 100 Olympics swimming pools a
day. It is enough to sort of fill up a standard house in just a few minutes,
your living room in 30 seconds. PETER OVERTON: Disasters on this scale
normally attract immediate global aid, but not here. The new homeless invent
ways to survive. To see the mud, there is an unofficial toll. Fifty cents to
pass and more to park, but can you blame them? Here, everyone is fending for
themselves but it's hard, hard work. This is all to get to that factory
that's deep in mud to plunder all the lights, the electrical boxes, all the
fittings in there, then they'll go and sell them and make a quid so they can
live day-to-day. Today's haul is pretty good and should yield a good price.
After this, they went next door and took away the roof. Sowagee, how quickly
did the mud come into your home? SOWAGEE (TRANSLATION): In the first step
was 15 minutes our villages was flooded. PETER OVERTON: Sowagee and his
family's tiny house was amongst the first to go, and they lost everything.
SOWAGEE
(TRANSLATION): I was trying to save my children first and then all my stuff
later. PETER OVERTON: Sowagee lost his job, too, as a construction worker.
He took us to his last project, repairing a highway which is now the road to
nowhere, buried for ever. Who do you blame now? SOWAGEE (TRANSLATION):
This is the mistake of the drilling company. PETER OVERTON: Lapindo? TRANSLATOR:
Lapindo? (SOWAGEE NODS) PETER OVERTON: Lapindo, an Indonesian mining
company, is public enemy number one. It's scrawled everywhere you look and
it's written across the furious faces in a nearby shelter for the homeless.
Ladies and gentlemen, who do you blame for the situation you are in? VILLAGERS:
Lapindo! PETER OVERTON: Now this is where the waters really get muddy.
Lapindo, the mining company, says 'We're not to blame!' And, wait for this —
they say all this destruction was triggered by an earthquake in Yogyakarta,
300km that way, not by the drilling rig, which was only 200 metres away. Did
your company cut corners in the drilling process? IMAM AUGUSTINO: Oh, no.
That one is not true. PETER OVERTON: Despite mounting evidence, Lapindo
boss Imam Augustino refuses to budge from the company line that this was a
natural disaster. Do you believe it was triggered by the earthquake? IMAM
AUGUSTINO: This triggered by the tectonic activities, not only not only the
earthquake, but these tectonic activities. PETER OVERTON: These tectonic
activities — you mean the earthquake Yogyakarta? IMAM AUGUSTINO: Yeah,
yeah. DR MARK TINGAY: It's difficult for a geologist, like myself, to
believe that an earthquake 200km away and two days prior to the accident
would have caused such an event. We would have only had shockwaves to the
equivalent of about Richter scale two at the site where the eruption took
place. Now, that's the equivalent of the vibration you get through your feet
when you stand next to a road and a truck goes by. So it is a very, very
light — not a strong vibration, by any means. PETER OVERTON: This calamity
has cost lives, as well as livelihoods. Late last year, 13 people died when
the mud engulfed a gas pipeline, causing a huge explosion. With little doubt
that human error caused all this mayhem, East Java police began
investigating. They've gathered a mountain of evidence so far and they're
still going. Are you one of the 13 suspects being investigated by the
police? IMAM AUGUSTINO: Yes. Yep. It is. PETER OVERTON: How does it feel
living with that over your head? IMAM AUGUSTINO: Of course, it's very
hard. PETER OVERTON: You could go to jail. IMAM AUGUSTINO: Yes, yep. PETER
OVERTON: With tempers at boiling point, the Indonesian Government ordered
Lapindo to buy every block of land, every home and every factory as
compensation. But, get this — sitting beside President Yudhoyono in Cabinet
as Welfare Minister is Aburizal Bakrie, a billionaire businessman whose
empire includes Lapindo. Recently, Mr Bakrie has been trying to off-load the
company, but those owed money suspect he is trying to offload his liability
as well. Let me make sense of why I think you want to sell it to an offshore
company. It was so you could have a company with no assets, no
responsibility, so you could wash your hands of the problem. IMAM
AUGUSTINO: That is not true. PETER OVERTON: So, everything I'm saying
isn't true? IMAM AUGUSTINO: I don't say it's not true but it is not 100
percent correct. PETER OVERTON: Lapindo has begun paying compensation but
there is a catch — people must first prove they own their home and land. IMAM
AUGUSTINO: As soon as possible, whenever they can provide the certificate of
land, they go to the government agencies, make verification, and we pay
them. PETER OVERTON: You know as well as I do that most of these people
cannot supply a certificate of ownership of the land to their home because
it was swallowed up by the mud. IMAM AUGUSTINO: No, that's just a case. PETER
OVERTON: They had 15 minutes to escape. IMAM AUGUSTINO: No, they — who
said that, 15 minutes? PETER OVERTON: Spare a thought, too, for the
Australian investors who stood to make a killing but, instead, are losing
millions on the ill-fated gas well. Santos, the Adelaide-based mining giant,
had an 18 percent slice of the action and is now lumped with 18 percent of
the losses. Santos corporate vice-president is Martin Eames. How much have
you paid out? MARTIN EAMES: We have paid out $30 million. PETER OVERTON:
And how much do you intend to pay out? MARTIN EAMES: Well, we've made a
provision in our accounts for $89 million. PETER OVERTON: Is Santos paying
out for the good of the displaced people or because you want to keep the
Indonesian Government onside? MARTIN EAMES: Well, we're paying it because
we feel it's the right thing to do, first and foremost, and part of that is
because of the impact on the people. You know, a decision on paying the
money that we have done is simply because we feel that is the right thing to
do. PETER OVERTON: Since there is no taming the flow of the mud, what on
earth to do with it? A new drainage channel to relieve the massive build up
is just a trickle compared with what is spewing out of the ground. What is
really frightening, though, is the scientists' prediction that the giant
underground chasm left behind could cave-in, sucking everything down with
it. You're saying that the earth could gobble up the whole lot? DR MARK
TINGAY: Now, what we really fear that might happen is that that could
collapse very, very quickly. That all the water and all the soil that has
been pulled out of the ground could cause the ground above, the surface, to
collapse. Tens of metres — 20, 30 metres down — in a few, just a few
seconds, and that would be catastrophic.
*Ismail Zaini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote:
Berita di koran hari ini , Lha kok ada jual beli " Proyek akademis " apa
itu ya ................
Kemudian ada juga ajakan revolosi , Wah gara gara Lapindo ada
Revolosi.nanti.............
ISM
===================================
Interpelasi Lapindo Hindari Jebakan
**
Hentikan jual beli proyek akademis yang mengorbankan aspek kemanusiaan.
JAKARTA -- Dukungan interpelasi kasus semburan lumpur Lapindo di Sidoarjo,
Jawa Timur, menguat di DPR. Hingga Jumat (15/6), sudah 163 penandatangan
dukungan penggunaan hak meminta penjelasan dan bertanya kepada pemerintah
itu yang akan dibacakan di Rapat Paripurna DPR, Selasa (19/5).
Penggagas interpelasi memastikan tak akan terjebak dan berkutat dalam
polemik Tata Tertib DPR tentang perlu hadir-tidaknya Presiden Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono seperti dalam kasus interpelasi Iran. Namun, kali ini mereka
penekannya lebih pada substansi menyelesaikan persoalan lumpur Lapindo yang
sudah berlangsung sekitar setahun itu.
''Hingga saat ini masih ada korban 30 ribu orang yang terlunta-lunta.
Sekarang tergantung SBY dalam merespon interpelasi kemanusiaan ini, karena
kami tak ingin terjebak langkah Presiden untuk datang atau tidak,'' ujar
Komisi V DPR, Abdullah Azwar Anas (FKB), salah satu penggagas interpelasi
lumpur Lapindo, kepada pers, kemarin.
Namun Azwar mengingatkan, interpelasi tersebut adalah kesempatan Presiden
SBY untuk membenahi citra yang menurun untuk menyelesaikan kasus Lapindo.
*Persoalan kebijakan*
Komisi VII DPR, lanjut Azwar, sudah mengundang para menteri terkait di
antaranya Menko Perekonomian, Menteri Keuangan, Menteri Pekerjaan Umum,
Menteri Perumahan Rakyat, Menteri Perhubungan, Menneg PPN/Kepala Badan
Perencanaan Pembangunan Nasional (Bappenas), Gubernur Jatim, dan Bupati
Sidoarjo, untuk menjelaskan kasus Lapindo. Namun jawaban mereka dianggap
belum menjamin kebijakan nasional penyelesaian lumpur Lapindo.
''Dalam interpelasi ini kami tak ingin terjebak soal teknis, dan menggeser
substansi masalah. Yang penting substansinya, ada kebijakan nasional yang
salah dalam menyelesaikan Lapindo,'' jelas Azwar.
Azwar mencontohkan adanya perbedaan kewenangan penyelesaian luapan lumpur
Lapindo beberapa waktu lalu, saat membuat kanalisasi luapan lumpur. Dalam
hal ini, apakah menjadi domain PT Lapindo Brantas atau pemerintah, apakah
mengganggu ekosistem, dan dalam skala besar mengganggu masyarakat?
''Lima BPLS (Badan Penanggulangan Lumpur Sidoarjo) pun tidak akan mampu
menyelesaikan dengan cepat karena BPLS berasal dari pejabat eselon satu dan
dua yang harus mengkoordinasi setingkat menteri. Ini salah satu contoh
persoalan kebijakan itu,'' tegas Azwar.
Pada Ahad (17/6), lanjut Azwar, tim penggagas interpelasi lumpur Lapindo
akan menerima kedatangan Pansus Lapindo DPRD Jawa Timur dan DPRD Sidoarjo.
''Mereka sudah punya rekomendasi. Harapan kita, rekomendasi itu sejalan
dengan persepsi kami soal pentingnya interpelasi,'' ujarnya.
Mengenai dukungan interpelasi lumpur Lapindo sendiri, Azwar mengulas,
pelan tapi pasti terus bergerak naik, khususnya dari anggota DPR dari daerah
pemilihan Jawa Timur. ''Penambahan signifikan juga dari Fraksi PPP sekitar
17 orang. Tapi dari Fraksi Partai Demokrat yakni Achmad Fauwzi dan Ajie
Massaid menarik dukungan, sementara dari Fraksi Partai Golkar tetap satu,
Yuddy Chrisnandi. Golkar kabarnya masih menunggu arahan dari pimpinan
mereka,'' ungkapnya.
*Investigasi FPDIP*
Sementara Fraksi PDIP DPR juga turun tangan dengan membentuk tim
investigasi lumpur Lapindo. ''Kami akan segera menyusun tim itu,'' ujar
Sekretaris Fraksi PDIP, Bambang Wuryanto, usai rapat fraksi kemarin. Menurut
dia, tim investigasi akan beranggotakan seluruh anggota Fraksi PDIP di semua
komisi di DPR. Tim bertugas mengumpulkan bahan dan masukan serta memberikan
solusi kepada pemerintah.
''Kami telah mendapat bahan masukan dari pakar bahwa ini bisa
diselesaikan. Kenapa pemerintah tidak bisa? Kalau masukan tim tidak
digubris, kita bisa revolusi,'' cetus Bambang.
Sosiologi Universitas Airlangga (Unai) Surabaya, Hotman Siahaan, yang
hadir dalam rapat Fraksi PDIP, juga mengatakan, pemerintah harus segera
menuntaskan kasus lumpur Lapindo. ''Harus pula dihentikan jual beli proyek
akademis. Solusi yang diberikan harus untuk kesejahteraan rakyat di sana,''
tegasnya, menyindir timbalnya kelompok kampus yang mengabaikan aspek
kemanusiaan para korban lumpur Lapindo.
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