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Living With LuSi: Indonesia's Mud VolcanoOn May 29, 2006, scorching toxic mud began spewing from a gas exploration site in the industrial district of Sidoardjo in East Java, forming what is now known as the LuSi mud volcano. LuSi, a nickname derived by combining the Indonesian words for mud (lumpur) with Sidoarjo, the site, is now flowing at a rate of about 60 Olympic swimming pools of mud a day since eruption, sinking homes, factories and schools, equivalent to twice the size of New York’s City’s Central Park, displacing tens of thousands of people and continues to be a nightmare to the surrounding population. Leading world geologists who assessed the poisonous gray mud flowing for over two years now, concluded that the drilling of a gas well by the energy company Lapindo Brantas, owned indirectly by the family of one of Indonesia’s richest and most influential men, Aburizal Bakrie, was responsible. The government already required the company to pay close to $400M as interim compensation, but the victims say payment has been slow, with only partial funds delivered to them so far. Sixty thousand people fled their homes and many now temporarily live in nearby shelters and in a marketplace. All efforts to stem the flow failed so far. It has grown to be one of the largest mud volcanoes ever to have affected a populated area. Unlike other disasters that plagued Indonesia — earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis — LuSi continues with no end in sight, and experts say the flow of mud could go on for decades. Photographs by KEMAL JUFRI
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Kemal Jufri is one of Asia’s leading Photojournalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He started his career in photography more than a decade ago as contract photographer for Agence France Presse (AFP) Jakarta bureau in 1996. At the end of 1998 he left AFP to work as a contributing photographer for Asiaweek magazine until the magazine close down in 2001. Since then, as a freelance photographer, he regularly works on assignment covering stories across Asia for major publications around the world including TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, STERN, Der Spiegel, Business Week International, El-Mundo, International Herald Tribune and many more. He has also participated in numerous photo exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas. 1998 – Newsweek magazine Best Picture of the Year Jakarta, Indonesia Play slideshow → |
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