An introduction to the Sidoarjo Mud Flow Disaster

1. MUD ON OUR HANDS!
Australian Sidoarjo Assistance Project
Fundraising Launch

2. Introducing…
Memperkenalkan….

3. Your Neighbours
Tetanggamu

5. At work in the
fields…
Bekerja di
sawah…

6. In the factories
Di pabrik

7. At home
Di rumah

8. Living life
Menjalankan hidup

9. As family…
Sebagai
keluarga…

10. As Friends
Sebagai
Teman

11. Just
growing
old…

12. In my Beautiful Village…
Di Desaku yang Indah…

14. Until my Beautiful home…

15. …became the site of a drilling
operation…

16. …and was completely destroyed.

18. Lapindo, Bakrie Groups, Medco, Santos-
they all deny responsibility

19. Mud-flow refugees are
not viewed as the
victims of natural
disaster.
At the same time they
have not been
recognised as the
victims of a corporate
crime.
Where does this leave
us?

22. What have we lost?

24. Up to 50,000 of us
have lost our
homes.
Thousands of the
less fortunant live
in cramped
conditions in tents
and vacant stalls
at the refugee
camp of Pasar
Baru Porong.

25. The Indonesian government
refuses to press charges against
Lapindo and the East Java police
have dropped all investigations.
In January this year a lawsuit
bought Indonesian NGO Walhi was
rejected when the court decided
there was insufficient evidence to
show that the mudflow was a man-
made disaster.
After two years, the Indoniesan
government has not implemented a
comprehensive assistance
program.

26. We have tried to work for justice- but the court dismissed us.

27. We have tried to protest… but no
one listened.

28. So we wait, without homes, without
work, without help.

30. Maybe people just
expect these things to
happen to us because
we are living in the
‘third world’…

31. But isn’t there
just one world?
Aren’t we all a
part of it
together?
If we are
neighbours,
then we should
not turn our
backs on one
another.

32. We’d like to
have a bright
future too.