Indonesia: Sidoarjo mudflow and gas pipe explosion - Nov 2006 Updates

Global Estimates 2015 - People displaced by disasters

Hans David Tampubolon, The Jakarta Post Porong in Sidoarjo, East Java, has come into the international spotlight as a destination for both tourists and researchers. Ironically, this global attention...

Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Sidoarjo | Thu, 04/19/2012 8:43 AM Victims of the hot mudflow disaster in Sidoarjo, East Java, are once again demanding that Lapindo Brantas Inc. pay the remaining...

JAKARTA, 4 July 2011 (IRIN) - Five years after a volcanic eruption displaced thousands, the mud continues to spew and many survivors have yet to regain their livelihoods. Bambang Setiawan, 47, lost...

Angela Dewan | Sidoarjo, Indonesia A giant mud volcano that erupted five years ago (05/29/2006) near a gas drilling site in Indonesia is still spewing toxic sludge. It has destroyed entire villages...

Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Hundreds of people and activists staged a rally to mark the fourth year since the Sidoarjo mudflow submerged thousands of houses in Sidoarjo, East Java. ...

PORONG, 10 February 2010 (IRIN) - Nearly 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Indonesia still lack basic services and are awaiting full compensation after a mudflow destroyed homes and...

By Indra Harsaputra After more than three years since the hot mudflow displaced thousands of residents of Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, in 2006, foreign assistance has started to flow in for the...

Indra Harsaputra , Sidoarjo, East Java - Residents living outside the areas officially affected by the Lapindo mudflow disaster have demanded compensation following the provincial administration's...

Indra Harsaputra , SURABAYA - Most victims of the Lapindo mudflow disaster in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, have expressed disappointment that none of the candidates in the presidential election have...

On the third anniversary of the Sidoarjo mudflow disaster human rights groups have once again called on the Government of Indonesia to provide all affected persons with immediate assistance and...

Indra Harsaputra Sidoarjo - The Sidoarjo hot mudflow, now mixed with oil, poses a greater threat of environmental damage because it flows through residential areas and the Porong River before getting...

Erwida Maulia JAKARTA - The National Commission on Human Rights says the displacement of thousands of mudflow victims from their homes in the East Java town of Sidoarjo could be classified as a human...

JAKARTA, 22 December 2008 (IRIN) Two-and-a-half years after a volcano erupted in the East Java province of Sidoardjo, the mud shows no signs of abating. One of Indonesia's worst disasters, the...

Jakarta_(dpa) _ Hundreds of homeless residents from East Java province demanded compensation for their properties destroyed by a massive mudflow caused by an industrial accident. More than 14,000...

JAKARTA, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Aburizal Bakrie, rated Indonesia's richest man, said on Wednesday a firm linked to his family was not responsible for a massive mud disaster in East Java, but would still...

Desy Nurhayati Victims in three more villages affected by the mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Jakarta, will receive compensation under the revision to the 2007 presidential regulation currently being...

WASHINGTON, June 9 (Reuters) - Drilling of a gas exploration well, and not an earthquake, set off a volcano that has been spewing boiling mud for two years and has displaced more than 50,000 people...

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked East Java governor Imam Utomo, Sidoarjo district head Win Hendarso and the Sidoarjo Mudflow Tackling Body (BPLS) to prepare an action plan soon following a...

Desy Nurhayati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta The government decided Wednesday to earmark Rp 700 billion from the state budget to compensate victims in three further villages affected by the mudflow in...