SUSTAINABILITY VALE DALAM JEJAK TUMPAHAN MINYAK YANG BERULANG

The document details a Marine Fuel Oil (MFO) pipeline leak on August 23, 2025, in Desa Lioka, which contaminated 82 hectares of land and 10 km of the Koromusilu River. It highlights a pattern of five oil spills in Luwu Timur since 2009 and links the infrastructure failure to the region's high seismic activity, noting 404 earthquakes along the pipeline route between 2015 and 2025. The report criticizes PT Vale's sustainability commitments as vague regarding MFO reduction and references the company's global history of dam disasters in Brazil.

• On August 23, 2025, a buried Marine Fuel Oil (MFO) pipeline owned by PT Vale Indonesia leaked in Desa Lioka, Luwu Timur, resulting in at least 90,000 liters of oil collected by August 27. The spill contaminated approximately 82 hectares of rice fields, gardens, ponds, and livestock farms across five villages and stretched 10 km along the Koromusilu River, causing the death of fish and storks.
• PT Vale has a history of five oil spills in Luwu Timur. This includes three incidents in the Lampia Sea (2009, 2012, and 2014) involving High Sulfur Fuel Oil (HSFO) from tankers, and two land-based pipeline leaks in Desa Lioka, one in 2010 and the most recent in 2025.
• Analysis of BMKG data reveals that the pipeline route from Malili to Sorowako is a seismic hotspot, with 404 earthquakes recorded between 2015 and 2025. Specifically, Desa Lioka experienced 73 earthquakes over the last eight years, and the exact leak site saw 29 earthquakes between 2024 and 2025. The document argues that shallow earthquakes (averaging 9-10 km depth) caused soil deformation that likely triggered the pipeline failure.
• While PT Vale committed in its 2024 Sustainability Report to reduce carbon emissions by 33% by 2030 and reach Net Zero Emissions by 2050, the document claims these commitments lack clear targets for reducing the use of MFO in production. Additionally, the company is criticized for not reporting biodiversity impacts 24 days after the Lioka spill, despite field findings of dead wildlife.
• The document links PT Vale's local failures to a global history of environmental disasters, specifically the 2015 Mariana dam collapse and the 2019 Brumadinho dam collapse in Brazil, the latter of which resulted in 270 deaths and allegations of falsified safety reports.

APA

Trend Asia (2025). SUSTAINABILITY VALE DALAM JEJAK TUMPAHAN MINYAK YANG BERULANG. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Fact-Sheet-Vale.pdf

Chicago

Trend Asia. SUSTAINABILITY VALE DALAM JEJAK TUMPAHAN MINYAK YANG BERULANG. 2025. https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Fact-Sheet-Vale.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{trendasia2025sustainability, author = {{Trend Asia}}, title = {{SUSTAINABILITY VALE DALAM JEJAK TUMPAHAN MINYAK YANG BERULANG}}, institution = {Trend Asia}, year = {2025}, url = {https://trendasia.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Fact-Sheet-Vale.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }