Tsunami rocked Indonesian politic
Tsunami has rocked Indonesian politic as legislators accused related ministers who got the alert after the 7.7-magnituted earthquake on July 17 of gross neglience.
Media reported on Wednesday that the tsunami warning centers in Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand received alerts between 15 minutes and an hour after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on July 17. At least 450 died on the coast of southern Java, where no warning was given.
Indonesian minister for research & technology Kusmayanto Kardiman was among key officers who received the alert from Japan and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), Indonesian media reported on Tuesday. But Mr Kardiman, as reported by Detik.com, didn’t pass on the information on unavailability of supporting facilities.
Politicians responded immediately saying if it’s true that Mr Kardiman received the alert and kept for himself, he should resign from the cabinet. Legislators from opposition party PDI-P, Permadi and Sidharto, said Mr Kardiman should have spread the information in the first place.
"How come we have such a minister," friends said.
The nation's state meteorology agency initially underplayed the strength of Monday's quake, rating it at a magnitude of 5.5, and said the tremor would not cause a serious tsunami. It revised that much later to a more dangerous 6.8, but by then the waves had already struck Java's south coast. The U.S.-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center recorded the quake at magnitude 7.2 but said a tsunami would only affect areas 100 km (60 miles) from the epicenter.
Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa who supervise the meteorology agency (BMG) admitted he received the information about the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.8 around four minutes later. He admitted that 18 minutes later Japan’s meteorology agency alerted Indonesian agency on tsunami potency. "But I didn't get the alert from Japan. May be research minister got that because he's the coordinator for early warning system," Hatta said.
So, that’s it, no action, denials, blame games! Hatta said most of the casualties were those who're sleeping or sailing.
Legislative will summon BMG over the issue for a possible further investigation. I'm just afraid it will end up like previous investigations.
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Media reported on Wednesday that the tsunami warning centers in Indonesia, Australia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Thailand received alerts between 15 minutes and an hour after the 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on July 17. At least 450 died on the coast of southern Java, where no warning was given.
Indonesian minister for research & technology Kusmayanto Kardiman was among key officers who received the alert from Japan and Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), Indonesian media reported on Tuesday. But Mr Kardiman, as reported by Detik.com, didn’t pass on the information on unavailability of supporting facilities.
Politicians responded immediately saying if it’s true that Mr Kardiman received the alert and kept for himself, he should resign from the cabinet. Legislators from opposition party PDI-P, Permadi and Sidharto, said Mr Kardiman should have spread the information in the first place.
"How come we have such a minister," friends said.
The nation's state meteorology agency initially underplayed the strength of Monday's quake, rating it at a magnitude of 5.5, and said the tremor would not cause a serious tsunami. It revised that much later to a more dangerous 6.8, but by then the waves had already struck Java's south coast. The U.S.-based Pacific Tsunami Warning Center recorded the quake at magnitude 7.2 but said a tsunami would only affect areas 100 km (60 miles) from the epicenter.
Transportation Minister Hatta Radjasa who supervise the meteorology agency (BMG) admitted he received the information about the earthquake at a magnitude of 6.8 around four minutes later. He admitted that 18 minutes later Japan’s meteorology agency alerted Indonesian agency on tsunami potency. "But I didn't get the alert from Japan. May be research minister got that because he's the coordinator for early warning system," Hatta said.
So, that’s it, no action, denials, blame games! Hatta said most of the casualties were those who're sleeping or sailing.
Legislative will summon BMG over the issue for a possible further investigation. I'm just afraid it will end up like previous investigations.
READ MORE!!!
posted by yosef at 1:41 AM
2 Comments:
Maybe.... again... just maybe, His Excellency Mr Kardiman was not well equipped with "adequate supporting facility" such as: decent cellular phone, decent fax machine, decent computer with on-line e-mail system.... or probably, he was not in his office when the alert came... he was with who???
But His Excellency Mr Radjasa should not implicitly blamed his colleague minister.... that is not ellegant....
However, as you mentioned on your previous posts, one of the known traits of this country is scape-goating culture....
Why don't we, as the "watching public", make some sort of award like in the US "Rotten Tomatoes" award for those who are the most non-ellegant scape goaters....
That'll be fun....
Thanks. I'll put somewhere in the blog, Rotten Tomatoes Award.
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