The Sidoarjo Mud Authority
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
THE National Mudflow Disaster Management Team in Sidoarjo was finally formed by the central government on September 8. It is difficult to say whether this was a belated decision. After all, the team was formed 101 days after the mud began to gush out from the PT Lapindo Brantas gas-drilling field. The damage done by the gas exploration by this subsidiary company of the Bakrie Group is already quite extensive.
About 10,000 residents have had to rel
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