TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Today marks the eleventh year since the Lapindo mudflow erupted in Sidoarjo. Throughout the lengthy process of compensation for this human tragedy, there are still dozens of victims either general residents or businesses that have yet to be compensated.
The Sidoarjo mud control center (PPLS) Public Relations, Khusnul Khuluk, revealed that 84 people are still left uncompensated. These people were residents directly victimized by the tragedy that was caused by a human error.
“[The compensation] is Rp54 billion in total,” says Khusnul on Monday, May 29.
Other than that, there are 19 data files - each resident at the affected area is represented by one data file - worth Rp8.9 billion that are uncompensated. The delay is mainly caused by some technical problems in the data.
According to Khuluk, the budget for the compensation will be submitted in the 2017 Revised State Budget (APBN-P). State Officials have officially announced that it will not compensate businesses that were affected by the mud flow.
Indonesian State Officials reminded that the compensating process must be completed through a business-to-business relationship with Lapindo. In other words, state officials will only bail Lapindo for the compensation towards general residents in the affected area, and not the businesses.
NUR HADI
