As you can see behind us
This is what we call Lapindo mudflow
Fluid hot mud forming a pool
This is the birthplace of my children
(Sobbing)
Where my parents are buried
This is where my extended family used to live.
But in mere seconds,
everything that was once here, perished, destroyed
Do you notice that women from this area are strong?
Because they endured the hardest strike of mudflow
We had to leave, were forced out
Dare you ask where was the government?
(There was) No sign of their existence.
We really needed support
we needed friends during that time
But who came for us?
No one.
We stayed.
The fates of our children, are all we are thinking
Children should stay in school.
Therefore we take blows after blows
We take how society undermine our existence
We stay strong
We stand united
although we were removed from history
I see women here feeling my pain
they too, feel what we feel
I truly hope what happened in Porong will not happen in other places
may no one be mistreated like us
enough is enough!
Let this pain stop here.
Please, don't let this happen again,
Defend your space,
Embrace your land,
Defend your birth place,
those people do not think that we exist.
Why do you think I say something like this?
Because the government does not acknowledge our rights
This is what we feel until now.
There are children born with disabilities
their parents used to work here, for the mining company
we have been inhaling poisonous gas
we're exposed to constant heat
the Government doesn't care about us
Do you want to destroy our future generation?
because of this Lapindo Brantas Company?
Friends, let us become strong, let's unite,
Let's build a powerful women movement, and show that
women are not weak.
Women are strong. We truly are strong.
Let's beat this Government.
Let's beat this State.
They exist because of us
but when we're ruined, they're nowhere to be found.
They're there to defend the mining company
not the people.