Bukannya kita belum dianggep .... tetapi mungkin lebih berarti "mereka"
tidak sependapat dengan kesimpulan resmi IAGI kita , sehingga sama sekali
mereka "mengabaikannya", saya yakin kalau mereka sependapat , pasti mereka
akan "nganggep" IAGI kita ....
wass,
nyoto
On 6/18/07, oki musakti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
> (eye )
>
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