TEMPO.CO, Sidoarjo - The Sidoarjo Mudflow Mitigation Agency (BPLS) will accelerate the validation of compensation for Lapindo mud victims to meet the deadline on July 31, 2015.
“We conduct the validation on Sunday,” BPLS spokesperson Dwinanto Hesti Prasetyo told Tempo on Saturday, July 25, 2015.
Earlier, the validation of the compensation was only conducted on business days. To this date, PT Minarak Lapindo have submitted 2,644 validation files, which 2,338 have been validated. The total of files to be validated is 3,337.
Dwinanto added that 700 out of the 2,338 validated files have been included in the nominative list before they are submitted to the State Treasury Service Office (KPPN) in Jakarta.
Earlier, Social Minister Khofifah Indar Parawansa said that the compensation for Lapindo mudflow victims would be paid simultaneously. Khofifah instructed that the compensation must be paid within July 21, 2015.
“Hopefully, the compensation can be settled [within the deadline]. I hope those who have not been validated would accept the decision,” she said.
NUR HADI