Harwati in Front of Lapindo Mudflow

Please let me introduce to you

This is what we called the pool of Lapindo Mud

Mud, filled with water, combining become one entities.

This maybe land where my children born

(Sobbing)

Where my parents grave

This is where my extended family used to lived.

But if we counting it by time, second

all had perished, destroyed,

why do you think women in this have become so strong?

This was the hardest stroke us

We were forcibly evicted

but where was the Government?

Nothing.

Truthfully, we need some assistance

we needed friends at that time

but who came for us?

No one.

We kept staying.

We only considered our children, our grandchildren.

Our children also need to be in school.

One stroke to another hit us,

We have been undermined by the society

But we kept staying strong

We kept unifying

even though history wouldn't consider we exists.

Maybe other women in some areas

also, felt like what we felt

I hope, as people from Porong, people that live in here,

there will be no other places that got this kind of treatment

enough, stop until here.

Let only us that felt this problem

Please, don't do this to other places

Defend your place,

Embrace your land,

Defend your birth place,

because they considered we do not exist only now

Why do you think I said something like this?

Because the Government don't give back our rights,

This is what we felt up until now.

Some children have born with some difficulties,

because their parents were working in this are

they were inhaled this smelling mud area

exposed to heat

but the Government really didn't want to care

Do you want to destroy our future generation?

because of this Lapindo Brantas Company

Friends, let us become strong, become unifying,

We 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 got troubled, we are they?

They are only present themselves to mining company

not the people