Today I went to the resettled villages. In a nutshell, BP is building an onshore processing plant for gas piped from its offshore operation in Tangguh. In order to put the processing plant where it wants, BP had to relocate an entire village, called Tanah Merah. As compensation for this, BP have built a new village - one house per family, including kitchen, bathroom and toilet, running water and electricity. As part of the deal, BP have also built schools, sports facilities, churches, mosques, health facilities etc - in short its very complete. The houses are beautifully done, and I am pretty sure none of those families ever imagined they would have a house like this in their lives. Because the new village (Tanah Merah Baru) is sited on the land belonging to another village (Saengga), that village has also been compensated similarly, one house per family. In Tanah Merah Baru, families are already living in their new houses, but in Saengga the moving date is next week. This post (below left) shows Sisilia's (one of the health project's local workers) old house, where she lives with her husband and 5 children. Next Friday she will move to her new house (below right). She and her husband are so over the moon it was lovely.