Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Lapindo hot mudflow: Bakrie vs Rakyat Merdeka

Today, the controversial newspaper Rakyat Merdeka run a headline story like this...Bakrie: I'm bussy...under the title...Reluctant to comment on Lapindo hot mudflow disaster...It's fun to read that item. But that's a serious issue for the coordinating ministry of people's welfare with Aburizal Bakrie as the minister...

As reported by Detik.com few hours ago, the ministry demanded the newspaper to apologize for the article and classified the article a defamation. The ministry argued the article violates Press Law No. 40/1999.
What's up?
I'm not sure why Rakyat Merdeka raised the question on Lapindo to Bakrie in the first place. Was it because of the newspaper believed that Bakrie supposedly have to say something in his capacity as coordinating minister for people's welfare about how government handle the disaster that forced 3,500 people leave their homes in Porong district, Sidoarjo or as the leader of Bakrie Family who reportedly own PT Energi Mega Persada Tbk---Lapindo's parent company even though the family's spokes person Lalu Mara warned last week that Aburizal Bakrie has nothing to do with Lapindo and asked media not to associate the minister with the disaster?
Whatever the backgrounds, the article had forced Bakrie's office to be bussy handling the defamation. So it seems that I should change the title of this article to be like...Bakrie's Office bussy to respond Rakyat Merdeka article...What do you think? Ooops, the legal notice is coming, this blog gonna die!

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