The horrifying earthquake that happened in Aceh, on December 26, 2004 ago, killed hundreds of thousands of Indonesian peoples in Aceh and northern Sumatra. After that the series of the earthquake happened in over the area in Palu, , East Tarutung Sea, West the Gunung Sitoli Power, west Banda Lampung sea, the Cimari Village, the Cisewu Subdistrict, the Garut Regency, Km West the Baubau City Power, the capital of the Moluccan Regency South-east West, the Nias Island (north Sumatera) and the Simeulue Island (Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam).

After that, the morning, on May 27 2006, struck 05:50, the earthquake with the strength 5, 7 Richter and the frequency almost 1 minute, happened in the south. Results of the BMG calculation showed the earthquake was 25 km next south the Parangtritis Coast. The depth of the earthquake was estimated by BMG 33 Km. As far as this is concerned, earthquake casualties were recorded by Red Cross Indonesia totaling 5000 people.

The series of this Earthquake objectively necessarily could have been anticipated by the Government of SBY-JK. Because the position of the islands in Indonesia quite serious affected by the Earthquake jolt and the Tsunami. Seen from the position, Indonesia was located to the Fire Ring (the Of Fire Ring) or territory in the earthquake danger, both the tectonic and volcanic Earthquake.

The government personally acknowledged this conclusion. The ministry of the Research and Technology (Research And Technology) mentioned that the Indonesian island was the territory the danger of the earthquake disaster because of being the area of active tectonics where it interacting of Straight Eurasia, the Slab Indo-Australia, the Slab Carolina/Pacific, and the Slab of Philippine Sea.

Although these Geological conclusions were acknowledged by the Government, the handling efforts early were not seen completely his developments graph. In no way had efforts that more advanced from the case of the earthquake that happened beforehand.

The number of tall casualties in the case of this Yogya Earthquake proved the weakness of anticipation from the Government of SBY-JK. The weakness of anticipation towards the latent problem, the Earthquake, in Indonesia, could not be separated from the low level of mitigation System technology (the Prevention) the Earthquake. In California, the United States, during 1994 had experienced the Earthquake with the strength bigger from the Earthquake that happened in Aceh. But the number of casualties about revolving is only 60 people.

This could happen because of the existence of the Litigation System that modern. Japan, after the Earthquake that happened in Kobe on January 17 1995, to the strength 7,2 Magnitude, furthermore built more than 300 earthquake censors who directly sent his information to six centers of the regional data all over Japan. Through this implement, only in time 4 or 5 information minutes would the occurrence of the Earthquake or the Tsunami could be anticipated. Moreover, the socialization concerning the earthquake danger and education for anticipation of the earthquake was carried out intensively.

Handling campaign of the Earthquake and the Tsunami was also carried out in a mass fashion. Defense fortresses to keep the rate of the wave, was good with the development walls in the coastal bank or planting of the Mangrove tree in the coastal bank, f the Tsunami happening was built mathematically. The process of the Evacuation and Restoration also the reconstruction of the Infrastructure was programmed systematically. It is another matter in Indonesia, although together in the area of the earthquake of the danger, but anticipation of the handling of the Earthquake as the Latent disaster was not shown seriously. After the Acehnese earthquake, the Observer’s station of the Earthquake that at this time numbering 31 stations were not yet increased significantly.

Education would the Earthquake danger and the Tsunami did not yet become emergency education against the community that was areas the danger of the Earthquake. In spite of that method of Information campaign anticipated if the Earthquake and the Tsunami happening. The system of emergency Information just merely plans that not yet quickly was allowed to ripen.

The Earthquake disaster in Yogyakarta, could not be released from the low level of “The Good intention to Budget Politics of the Government of SBY-JK”. As far as this is concerned budget politics of the Government of SBY-JK more it was stressed to foreign debt payment Not for anticipating the natural disaster. This was seen in the APBN Balance, natural disaster aid that was part of the Social aid only got the portion 0,9% PDB

From this situation, the Student’s National League for Democracy (LMND) concluded that the Government of SBY-JK failed to protect the People from natural disaster.

Jakarta, May 29^th 2006

Form of the Student Council, seized True Democracy!!
The executive National
The National Student League for Democracy (EN LMND)

Lalu Hilman Afriandi (General Chairperson)
Paulus Suryanta (General Secretary)