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SIDOARJO - Nearly 50,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Indonesia still lack basic services and are awaiting full compensation after a mudflow destroyed homes and farmland almost four years ago.
Originating from a mud volcano in the district of Sidoarjo in East Java Province, the mudflow and toxic gas emissions started in May 2006 and still continue, with the volcano expelling 60,000 cubic metres of watery mud daily, according to the government's Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS). Some 14,000 houses have been submerged.
In the village of Besuki in Porong sub-district - a five-minute drive from the volcano - IDPs have found refuge alongside a road in bamboo huts they built themselves. They say they are still awaiting full compensation for losing their land and homes, and cannot afford to move until they receive all the money. Many report only receiving 50 percent of the compensation, which for most is about 100 million rupiah (7,800 euro). They expect the balance in a year.
"I share the room with my husband and four children. It gets so hot at night and the rain leaks through the roof. No one can sleep. We used to get a lot of journalists and people writing reports here, but not many come any more. We think people have forgotten us." Siti Rochma, mud flow refugee.
BPLS says the government has plans to install water, gas and electricity infrastructure next year for the IDPs, while healthcare is free - but survivors dispute this. Atituk, 30, said she had to pay each time she took her one-year-old son to the doctor. "There's still a lot of gas in the air, so he gets chronic throat infections. We got him some syrup, but he still gets sick all the time," she said.
Besuki village, which is just across the road from the old destroyed neighbourhood the refugees used to live. © Angela Dewan/IRIN
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