The price of negligence

The price of negligence

From Media Indonesia

The recent landslide at the Leuwigajah dump in Cimahi regency, West Java, buried hundreds of houses and killed many people while they were asleep.

Like the tsunami in Aceh that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, the Leuwigajah landslide had also been predicted. But for reasons that are still not clear, the prediction was ignored by the local administration and residents.

The disaster was likely to have been caused by the way garbage was piled up at the location, with the weight of the waste too great for the soil to sustain.

The question we must ask now, is why the Cimahi regency administration did nothing about it. Regency officials are likely to have pretended to be ignorant of the imminent disaster to serve the interests of a handful of people.

ULAFAH HALDHA T. Bandung