Why the great accident happens every year in Indonesia?

Question

Tsunami took place in Indonesia last year, the flood takes place in Jakarta this year, Indonesian common people are very pitiful

Answer 1

I am an Indonesian. And I am very pitied with the conditions of Indonesian travelers.
Great accident happens "almost" every year in Indonesia because of the corruption. As an outsider, you maybe don't know the government facts in Indonesia. It's full of corruption.
Every year, the ministers corrupt money. Even, we came up with a query here: "Corrupt, Sleep, and Billions of Rupiah".
Why do I say this: Because the corrupted money is for flight-safety; tsunami prevention and other else. We decided to build a flood-canal last year, as the great flood this year has been detected far. But until now, they didn't build it. Why? One reason is the money. The money is corrupted.

Answer 2

Don't say that I'm superstitious or something, but let's face it. Indonesia is kind of cursed or something, because of the corruption, poor conditions etcetera. I say that there won't be any time or (most important of all) money left to ''rebuild'' the country. If you ask me, there isn't any hope left for the people and the country there. If the people were not corrupt, the country may be still poor but not as worse as it is now. I myself am an Indonesian; I don't hate my native country and stuff, but I just can't see a future; and why should I lower myself? And actually, it's not only the people's fault. Some disasters may happen, because of the geographical position of Indonesia; which is perfectly in the middle of the ''Ring of Fire''; the name says it all. My family and I went to Europe for these reasons; and because of Suharto then and the terrorism, of course. Really, I can't see any options to improve Indonesia, just let it be; there's just something wrong with Indonesia.

To be honest, I wouldn't go on vacation there anymore; I don't recommend it; for the money's going to freakshow ''government'' dudes.

Answer 3

I'm afraid there will be more disaster this year, and next several years. They, the Indonesian should prepare themselves to mitigation. I've read from news that global warming will cause the tropic storm even longer and bigger.

This is not an answer, just to share some information.

Answer 4

There is nothing left for Indonesia, the whole place is doomed to fail in every aspect of things...

Answer 5

I reckon because the lack of government concern for its people.. I pity my own country.. I'm so lucky I live in Australia now..

Answer 6

First of all, I agree with my friend YoYo here...

There is nothing left to rebuild the country...

Answer 7

Airplanes are disappearing or sliding off the runways, ferries are sinking or simply decomposing on the high seas, and trains crash or get derailed at average rate of one per week. Illegal garbage dumps bury desperate communities of scavengers under their stinking contents. Landslides are taking carton-like houses into the ravines; earthquakes and tidal waves are destroying coastal cities and villages. Forest fires from Sumatra are choking huge areas of Southeast Asia.

The scope of disasters is unprecedented, and it absurd to discount them simply as the nation's bad luck, or to blame the wrath of the gods or nature. Corruption, incompetence and simple indifference by the ruling elites and government officials are mostly to blame. It is poverty, and a lack of public projects that kill hundreds of thousands of desperate Indonesian men, women and children.

Some of these disasters are man-made; almost all of them are preventable. With closer scrutiny, it becomes obvious that people die due to almost non-existent prevention, lack of education (Indonesia spends the third least amount on education as percentage of its GDP, after Equatorial Guinea and Ecuador) and a savage pro-market economic system which allows enrichment of very few at the expense of the majority.

Indonesia is profit-driven to the extreme. It is also one of the most corrupt nations on the face of the earth, and there seems to be no immediate profit to be made from implementing preventive measures. It seems that the word "public" has almost disappeared from the lexicon of those who make decisions in Indonesia. Short-term profits for a particular group of individuals are given much higher priority than long-term gains for the entire nation. The moral collapse of the nation is reflected in the scale of values — corrupt, but rich, individuals command incomparably higher respect than those who are honest but poor.

Ferries are sinking not because of high winds and waves, but due to overcrowding and poor maintenance. More precisely, they are allowed to be overcrowded and badly maintained. Everything is for sale, even the safety of thousands of passengers. The Indonesian airline industry has one of the worst safety records in the world. Since 1997, at least 666 people have died in eight separate airplane crashes in the country. Some of the pilots are so badly trained that planes sometimes skip off the runway, or miss it altogether. Maintenance is another issue: flaps often don't function properly; wheels cannot retract properly after take-off; and seldom-changed tires have a tendency to blow out upon touchdown. On average, there is one deadly train accident every six days in Indonesia, many caused by the lack of gates at its approximately 8,000 crossings. By comparison, Malaysia suffered no fatal train accidents for the 13 years up to and including 2005 (the last year for which statistics are available).

Illegal logging and deforestation are the main reasons for the landslides, which often occur after heavy rains and flooding. The individuals who are responsible for the forest fires in Sumatra and elsewhere are commonly known, but officials are reluctant to make arrests as those to blame for de-forestation are often rich and well connected in a country where even justice is for sale.

Indonesia often suffers from some man-made disasters beyond any comprehension and comparison. A recent "mud flood" inundated entire villages right outside Surabaya. It occurred due to inadequate safety procedures by a gas exploration company (co-owned by one of the cabinet ministers). This "accident" displaced more than 10,000 people and covered over 1,000 acres of land with hot mud, destroying Surabaya's only motorway as well as the major railway line. Garbage buried entire communities of poor scavengers at an illegal dumping site outside Bandung. There are many more cases of a similar nature, but the complete list would require too much space — probably an entire book would need to be dedicated to the subject.

The question is when will the Indonesian people say that enough is enough, and demand accountability and justice, exact statistics and concrete blueprints for solutions? In almost any other country, two recent disasters — the grizzly sinking of the Senopati Nusantara and the "disappearance" of Adam Air Boeing 737 with 102 people on board — would be more than enough to force cabinet ministers to resign. In Indonesia, these tragedies are seen (or presented) as yet another misfortune without holding anyone responsible or accountable.

Since December 2004, Indonesia has lost around 200,000 people in various disasters, not counting car accidents and military conflicts ranging all over its archipelago. That's more than Iraq lost in the same period of time, and more than Sri Lanka or Peru during their long civil wars. Indeed, many Indonesians are experiencing lives that are as dangerous and hazardous as those in war-torn parts of the world. However, most of them don't realize it, as comparative statistics are not available or are suppressed.

The unwillingness to deal with the problems is rooted mostly in corruption. Local companies and officials have developed a unique ability to make profits from everything, even from disasters and the suffering of millions of fellow citizens. In simple terms, corruption is stealing from the public. But when the overall toll has to be calculated in hundreds of thousands of lost human lives, it becomes mass murder.

Answer 8

coincidence,,maybe