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
Reporter: Peter Overton
Producers: Howard Sacre , Julia Timms 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
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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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