FOR days, the villagers at Kedungbendo worked together to build a dam to ward off the mud. They did not want their village to suffer the same fate as three other villages around LapindoSiring, Jatirejo, and Renokenongotoday covered in the mudflow from PT Lapindo Brantas well. Alas, last week the dam collapsed anyway.

It has been nearly a month since the major leak at Lapindo, but the flowing mud has yet to be stopped, let alone removed. Lapindo ha