THE particular ‘fact’ was circulated by PT Lapindo Brantas through various methods: seminars, newspaper advertisements and road-shows to the campuses. Essentially, the message was that the mud flowing out of the Lapindo wells in Porong, Sidoarjo, East Java, since May 29, 2006 is not the result of drilling but caused by a natural disaster. This ‘fact’ was conveyed last Tuesday by the Sidoarjo Mudflow Monitoring Team established by the Hous