Tuesday, March 30, 2010 6:28 AM
SBY urges Lapindo to pay for mudflow victims’ relocation
The Jakarta Post | Mon, 03/29/2010 5:57 PM | National
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has urged PT Lapindo Brantas, whose drilling activities allegedly triggered the mudflow disaster in 2006, to expedite relocation payments to the mudflow victims in Porong, Sidoarjo in East Java.
In his second visit to the mudflow site, Yudhoyono’s first visited the disaster site in 2008, the President took the opportunity to have a closed-door meeting with 10 local residents Monday, as reported by kompas.com.
Yudhoyono urged his aides to see to it that the funds were given to the victims immediately.
(We have seen the continued saga of Peyton Place on tv, now we have the never ending saga of Sidoarjo, and still no money in sight, ol' Kesas' musings)