Lapindo mudflo victims pray for their deceased relatives in Sidoarjo, East Java. TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Today marks the eleventh year since the Lapindo mudflow erupted in Sidoarjo. Throughout the lengthy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A two-year-old mud volcano in East Java that has submerged six villages, displaced 12,000 families and ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - All residents affected by the Lapindo mud disaster expressed their gratitude to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo who decided to refinance the compensation that has yet been paied by ...

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Entire villages have been inundated by the torrent of mud that has flowed since a drilling accident in May, causing an unfolding environmental disaster in the Sidoarjo area near Indonesia's second ...

Ahead of Indonesia’s presidential election on Feb. 14, people from across the country affected by extractive industries gathered at the site of a notorious mudflow disaster in East Java province. The ...

In the 17 years since mud consumed their village, Indonesians displaced by the notorious “Lapindo Mudflow” have rebuilt their homes – but not their communities, which are divided by petty rivalries in ...

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HOUSTON, Nov. 19-- Lapindo Brantas Inc. has a gas discovery in the Brantas production-sharing contract in East Java, said PSC partner Novus Petroleum Ltd., Sydney. Tanggulangin-1 is the first of three ...