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Resurrecting the Dead:
The Invention of KH Anas’ Graveyard and Rebuilding of Social Cohesion in a Mud Affected Community in East Java, Indonesia

On 29th May 2006, a mud volcano erupted in the oil and gas exploration area under the management of Lapindo Brantas Inc., in Porong, East Java, Indonesia. With more than 800 hectares of land coverage, this mudflow eruption has now buried four villages, including in it not only homes of more than 12,500 families and hundreds of factories, but also a respectful graveyard of a local religious leader, KH. Anas Al-Ayyubi.
Buried 9 meter-deep under the mud, homes, mosques, public halls and other venues for social interaction are only left as memory since identification is no longer possible. However, a particular group in the mud affected community initiated to rebuild the graveyard of KH Anas, even without knowing clear physical location of the old graveyard. Rebuilt with similar construction materials as the old graveyard, this new graveyard became the only landmark rebuilt in the affected area.

Global Economic Crisis and its Effects on Mud Affected Communities in East Java, Indonesia

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This research would like to study the effects of global crisis to the mudflow affected community located thousands of miles from the States, where the crisis started, and whose everyday life was hardly connected to financial and banking systems which allegedly played major role in triggering the crisis. The community, with more than 12,500 households, is the one who was forced to flee their homes because of hot mudflow eruption, widely believed to be the impact of improper oil mining exploration practices carried out by Lapindo Inc, a leading Indonesian energy company, on 26 May 2006.

Bencana adalah fenomenon sosial. Ia tidak dapat lepas begitu saja dari waktu dan ruang sosial yang melingkupinya. Dengan demikain bencana juga menjadi momen berlangsungnya segala drama sosial. Dalam riset ini bisnis diambil sebagai contoh dengan fokus studi pada bencana lumpur Lapindo.

Mud volcano eruption in Porong, East Java, Indonesia in May 2006 has forced more than 40,000 people to migrate. The huge scale of its impacts (see: mud flow impact) has invited debates among scientists, policy makers and community organizers. Some are focusing on nature of disasters (natural vs unnatural) or its environmental effects (Davies et al. 2007; Mazzini et al. 2007; Manga 2007; Davies et al. 2008; Abidin H.Z et al. 2008; Satyana al. 2008; Tingay et al. 2008; Mazzini et al. 2009; Sawolo et al. 2009; Istadi et al. 2009; Fukushima et al. 2009), some dealing with social-political management of the disaster (Schiller et al. 2008; Muhtada 2008), and some other on social and economic impacts of the disaster to local economy (McMichael 2009). While those contribute to give a clear picture of the nature of the problem, they are occupied either on technical aspect of disaster or on socio-economic-political aspects at macro/aggregation level. So far, there is no literature dealing with the disaster impacts at micro level, such as families and households, where relations among individuals are likely affected by the loss of homes and of livelihood due to the disaster.

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