Sidoarjo – After eight years of uncertainty and not receiving full compensation for their properties engulfed in the Lapindo mudflow in Sidoarjo, East Java, hundreds of displaced victims again converged on the Sidoarjo regency council on Friday.

"Actually, we are bored of blocking the road and the Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS) embankment project. We have also often converged on the House of Representatives in Jakarta, so the government and people would know that the mudflow issue has yet been resolved," mudflow victim Budiarto, from Jatirejo village, told The Jakarta Post on Friday.

Sidoarjo regency council Mudflow Special Committee head Mahmud, who greeted the victims, said he did not have an answer for the victims but promised he would find out whether the government had allocated funds for the compensation in the 2015 state budget.

Source: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/12/06/mudflow-victims-demand-compensation.html