Mudflow city is sidoarjo?

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🏜The hot mudflow at the drilling site owned by PT Lapindo Brantas, which emerged since May 29, 2006, devastated the quiet lives of thousands of residents of a number of villages in Sidoarjo, East Java. Increasingly bursts of bursts, leading them to continue living in refugee camps or move away to other places.

As many as 20 people reportedly died as a result of the disaster that was triggered by the drilling activities of PT Lapindo Brantas. While material losses are estimated at more than Rp. 45 trillion.

No less than 10,426 housing units and 77 units of worship houses were submerged in mud. Hundreds of hectares of agricultural land owned by residents vanished in an instant, including thousands of livestock. Tens of factories stopped operating and thousands of people lost their jobs.

Mud also sank government offices, schools and other public facilities. Disconnecting highways, tolls, rail lines, electricity, telephone and clean water. The area of ​​15 villages in the districts of Porong, Tanggulangin, and Jabon, Sidoarjo, was totally paralyzed.

The impact of such a huge loss due to the hot mudflow centered in the District of Porong, which is a densely populated settlement and one of the main industrial areas in East Java.


The impact of this mud is also very large. Among them 16 villages in three sub-districts were flooded with mud, government buildings did not function because they were flooded, with no less than 600 hectares of land submerged by mud, and many other economic and social impacts. But a few years later, local residents also took advantage of this opportunity by making the Lapindo mud reservoir area a tourist spot.

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