Harwati in Front of Lapindo Mudflow

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.