Bubbling Up

Over the past week methane gas has been oozing out from a fault line in Sidoarjo while the surface of the ground subsides to a depth of 3 meters.

April 29, 2008

EVERY time she closes her lubricating-oil shop Siti Khadijah is worried. She still remembers the afternoon in January when the floor tiles of the shop cracked and water gushed out high up to the ceiling. “A foul smell permeated through the room, making me sick with headache,” Khadijah recalled in a conversation with Tempo.

Today, Khadijah and her neighbors at Desa Siring Barat in the East Java district of Sidoarjo are seeing another threat t

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