Natural Disasters
Dec 27th, 2006, in News, by PatungPresident Yudhoyono advises the people not to be superstitious about natural disasters.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, putting some distance between himself and some of his rather superstitious predecessors, namely presidents Suharto and Gus Dur, said on the 20th of December that natural disasters were inevitable in Indonesia, for geological and other environmental reasons, and that the people should not think of them in terms of their mystical beliefs or as a result of political happenings.
Krakatau: The Destruction and Reassembly of an Island Ecosystem.
The various earthquakes, such as the one in Yogyakarta in May 2006, and the southern Java earthquake and tsunami of July, as well as the massive Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004, that had happened recently were not unusual and in the past much worse catastrophes had occured.
More than one thousand years ago a Sumatran volcano erupted creating a gigantic hole that we now know as Toba Lake. It is believed the Sumatran volcano’s eruption was the most horrifying explosion ever registered on earth but this event has long been forgotten by people today.
Then again at the beginning of the 19th century, Mt. Tambora erupted killing tens of thousands of people. Later that century Mt Krakatau erupted and also killed untold numbers. antara
Dust from the Mt. Krakatau eruption reached Europe while a tsunami following the eruption swept through the islands of Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan and the Malaysian peninsula.
45 Comments on “Natural Disasters”
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Mohammed Khafi says:
Mythos or Logos?
Mythos will drag us back to the days of ignorance, Logos will allow us to move forward using knowledge, science, reasoning and logic to a new age of enlightenment. Are science and religion compatible? Too right they are!
Ali you go back to your dukun, lucky charms, love potions and superstition, you can share your life with babi ngepet and kuntilanak just don’t drag the rest of the people into your superstitious darkness.
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1ndra says:
Nature disasters are nature disasters, I hope.
Hope that they arent manmade, and I’m not thinking anything related to syirik.
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Hi 1ndra,
There are some who would like us to belive that their manmade disasters such as Sidoarjo are natural disasters “The steaming mud flow in Sidoarjo is a natural disaster which seems impossible to overcome, Adhie MassardI said in a function to explain the report of …
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Yeah, poor people, and my friend live not far away from there, just a few kilometers.
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Andrew says:
The Sidoarjo mud issue is clearly caused by human. Attempts to describe it as a natural disaster is a cover-up attempt to deny accountability. The disaster is definitely of an epic proportion, and that company must be held accountable.
We’ll see how justice is served in a case of this magnitude.
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Tomaculum says:
We are also nature disaster, aren’t we?
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Right Tomaculum, we are human, we are nature.
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Olong Olong says:
Guys,
Have you ever thought what would happened if Lapindo is owned by Chinese conglomerate ?
Will Indonesian f#$k-ing Govt consider this as a natural disaster??
peace
O2
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1ndra: and we are disastrous.
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Ali says:
Isn’t it clear who to blame? The Lapindo disaster is either caused by the Israelis, or the Chinese.
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Ihaknt says:
Ali, wtf?! No, it was CIA and the Americans who are responsible…Everything that goes wrong in this world is their fault. We ourselves are never at blame. I tripped and fell this morning, i truly believed that the CIA intendedly put the door mat in an angle so I would trip. And I did! Bloody CIA! There must’ve been some kind of a conspiracy.
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Olong Olong says:
Ali,
Chinese people are smarter than pribumi conglomerates, they just wait and see…someday when the Lapindo Mud can be proccessed to be something usefull, then…Chinese conglomerates will come to play… :))
So, you be patient……don’t blame chinese…at least not now.
O2
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Hassan says:
Naah, the CIA don’t place boobytrapped door mats, that looks more like the works of mossad to me, seriously. It got mossad written all over it.
Their next move will be placing bananas over your driveway. Beware of the Jews!!!
BTW, what you said is not a conspiracy, that’s a reality. The conspiracy theory is the recent gossip that george w. bush is a liar. What a wild one!
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Instead placing a tank outside your house with its mounted cannon right at your door. 😀
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I like the Jews because when I go to dinner to their place I can be sure I am not eating any pork. Gossip is not a gossip if it’s true, d’oh! Oh and I like boobies, so I hope the boobytraps is the kind of boobies I like. 😉 But there’s another story all together.
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Dimp says:
I thought the Arabs were behind CIA and Mossad, and the Americans are behind the Arabs, but the Jews are the one driving the Americans, and Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert are the ones that we actually need to be fearful off.
This message has been brought to you by the letter P, for Paranoid, and the letter of C for Conspiracy.
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Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert are the ones that we actually need to be fearful off.
That’s right. They are corrupting the children since a very young age.
Dimp, the C word can be taken as something else.
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I thought the Arabs were behind CIA and Mossad, and the Americans are behind the Arabs, but the Jews are the one driving the Americans, and Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert are the ones that we actually need to be fearful off.
This message has been brought to you by the letter P, for Paranoid, and the letter of C for Conspiracy.
That’s might look like this : Disasters by CIA by Mossad by Arabs by American by Jew
Ihaknt’s slip by Big Bird, Ernie, and Bert
1ndra -> Aspirin
Now, where’s mine?😀
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Big Bird, Ernie and Bert are just henchmen. The real king pin is Kermit. And Kermit’s a half Jew. Beware of Kermit!!! Run for your lives!
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I thought Kermit represents the PPP as he always wears “green”.
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Nothing wrong with Jews. Jews are just a race who believe in a different belief from mine. Just like any race, there are bad apples. Thankfully, all the Jews I know are nice, law abiding citizens, very rich, respectful and easy going. While some of the Moslems and chiristians I know are a**holes. Hence they are not my friends.
Dimp what is P3?
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Some kind of Partai 🙂
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partai persatuan pembangunan? correct?
btw for Sidoarjo, I read at the detik.com there is a similarity between these mud disaster with those that happened in Japan (don’t remember the cities) after earthquake. And the last Jogya earthquake might induced this mud-disaster (according one of the geology prof. from Tokyo if I am not mistaken-couldn’t find the link hmf). But I found this http://rovicky.wordpress.com/2006/06/27/mungkinkah-gempa-penyebab-mud-flow/ which might can be an additional cause for Sidoarjo.
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Hi Dian Doank,
Either way, what actually causes the mud flow, the important thing is what the Indonesian government is actually doing to take care of this incident.
The track record of the government in caring for the people who fell victims to natural disasters (tsunami in Aceh, earthquake in Yogya etc), as well as other incidents (the recent Adam Air incident, the messy haj pilgrimage that left people with no food for 30 hours) has been simply appaling.
It is time for these ‘fat cats’ in Jakarta to own up and be responsible for this mess, start acting like grown ups. I mean they are getting paid to do their job, if what they do is blame others, we can do it ourselves, why do we bother paying these politicians?
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The Adam Air incident…well these discussion are flowing in other forum. Patung please comeback and add this hottest topic please.
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Leave Patung on his holiday. He needs a break from loonies like us. 😉 I am sure he will fire away when he is back.
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I hope he isn’t reading news, so he have a fresh holiday. 🙂
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Ihaknt: you’re too serious. 😀
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I hope the Adam Air incident will open the eyes of the officials or any other parties involved that by cutting the costs of already low cost carriers that they are playing with people lives.
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We should think about it from a religious point of view. There is a clear, visible pattern, which I’d rather not mention in this forum.