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[Sajen]

Originally Posted by A. G. Maisey

Sidoarjo?

Hope you missed the Mud Flood.

Got a lot of family in Malang, & I used to stay in Malang and go down to Surabaya by bus & wander around the markets & wharves, it was a couple of hours down & back, a good day out, but the mud put an end to that. Interfered badly with krupuk supply for a while too --- minor thing the krupuk, but pretty inconvenient for many people.

They've got the tollway in place now, so the journey time is pretty much back to what it used to be, but that mud looks like its there forever. We all believed it was caused by the gas drilling, but apparently some scientists have now determined that it was actually triggered by an earthquake that occurred some distance away. In recent years there seems to have been a lot of these mud eruptions all over Jawa --- maybe not so much in West Jawa/Sunda, but certainly in East Jawa & Jawa Tengah.

It was the reason to sell the house in the perumahan and move to Bali. I wasn't to East Java anymore since the mud flood arise but was there many times before.
Malang was the city where I met Wofgang Spielmann the first time, long ago, in 1992.

Regards,
Detlef