Mudflow Sidoarjo, Porong. Follow up.
Mudflow victims making dirt-cheap bricks from the sludge
Indra Harsaputra, The Jakarta Post, Sidoarjo
Put it down to a keen sense of resourcefulness even in times of trouble.
Some enterprising entrepreneurs are taking the mud spouted from a disastrous gas well leak in Porong district, Sidoarjo, East Java, and putting it to good use as a cost-efficient building material.
For them, despite the destruction and hardship brought by the foul-smelling mud, which now blankets 126 hectares of land after 43 days, it has been a boon for business.
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