Sidoardjo Mud Volcano Disaster

On 28 May 2006, an industrial gas drilling company initated a torrential hot volcanic mudflow which would inundate villages and rice paddies, displacing more than 11,000 people from eight villages in the Porong district, Sidoardjo. Families and factories as well as farms had to be relocated as the land was deem unsafe. Hot mud and hot gas would explode as far as 5km.

Since then, there were more gas explosions and the mud volcano was declared to be collasping in its own weight.

Two years on, when we visited the place briefly, there were some industrial work going on, probably related to the gas exploration works since the gas pipelines were still in operations.

As far as my eyes could see, the ruined villages were still covered by the mud, nothing has yet to be done to the area. Some people were still living in tents and have turned to begging in the streets.




The price of living next to an active volcano, the volcano exploded into a large caldera of hot mud


Many houses in the villages were destroyed by the mud and gas explosions. Two years on, nothing has been done




There were quite a few people in the streets asking for money, some still lived in makeshift tents


The active caldera still releasing hot vapour gaseous.




Hot mud and water flows, some works are still being done to divert the hot mud safely



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