Does the Indonesian government

believe in Black Magic?

The water of Lake Toba suddenly looked clean again How
this can happen?
Beginning of May 2016 the water quality of the whole Lake Toba was down: The PH went up to 9,5
(normal for a oligothrophic lake it is around 7 to 7,5), the concentration of total phosphorus went up
to 330 micrograms per liter (normal for a clean lake: below 20) the visibility went down to 50 cm
(normal more than 5 meter), the temperature went up to 29 Celsius (normal 26). Nearly all the PoraPora fish already disappeared, because they didnt have enough oxygen anymore to get babies
around the coastline. The Pora Pora was a cleaning fish, who ate the excrement of the fish farm fish.
Now the phosphates enriched excrement went also to the lake and will stay there for the next 80
years. The blue algae already grow and the whole lake was full of a lot of plankton. The color of the
Lake went to green.

For everybody who is experienced in analyze Water quality this meant: The Lake will die very soon
now: To much nutrition, to much phosphates. And for a up to 550 m deep lake, this is the death
sentence for the whole lake forever. The water of the lake need to change for one exchange around

80 years. The phosphates will stay in the lake for this time and even longer.
For everybody experienced it was clear, that the Lake will die now in a few weeks or month. In
Harrangoal in the north of the lake already the fish dieing starts at the beginning of May 2016.
Thousands of tons of the fish died in the floating cages.

Dead fish at Harrangoal (Analisa 7th May 2016:

http://harian.analisadaily.com/headline/news/ribuan-ton-ikan-mati-mendadak/235016/2016/05/07)

But than a wonder happen: The lake was getting totally clear
in only one week!
One week later you could see around 5 m through the water again, what was not possible since five
years anymore. The water was getting full blue again and the PH went down to 8,3. For the first
everybody was happy about this: Lake Toba has clean water again!

Lake Toba at beginning of August in Silimalombu

But is the water really clean? How it could happen? An Exchange of the water take around 80
years? The phosphates still have to be in the lake. Then in the next month a few hypothesis how it
could happen came up:

Hypothesis 1: The Volcano gave a lot of Acid to the Lake

Of course, if the Volcano produce a lot of sulfur acid, than the PH is going down. But with this not
all the algae die and also the phosphate is not getting inactive. Still the huge amount of phosphates
will be the driving nutrition for new algae. And if this would be happen, than you will get the strong
sulfur bubbles at the surface of the lake or somebody will recognize the steam of this. Nothing of
this was recognized. And the phosphorus concentration still has to have the same high.

Hypothesis 2: Somebody gave Glyphosate (Roundup) to the Lake

Glyphosate can kill all the algae. This is possible. Glyphosate is really cheap and you can buy it
easily in China also in the amount you need to kill the whole algae in the lake. Just buy some

hundred tons of it, ship it to Indonesia and give it to the lake. This is already an option. Here the
link, if you want to buy hundreds of tons: https://www.alibaba.com/products/F0/glyphosate.html?
spm=a2700.7724838.34.1.94EkJH
But the Glyphosate will kill all the algae. The Algae die and the rotten algae will need a lot of
oxygen. If somebody would have done like this, than by this condition of the lake, all the fish will
died in Lake Toba. Also this will work only for a few weeks or maybe some month, until the algae
grow again. All the dead algae will be on the ground and with the huge amount of phosphates the
algae will grow much faster afterwards again. If this happened, then we will see in the next weeks a
huge algae bloom again. Also it easy can be tested, because the Glyphosate is getting reduced to the
Metabolite AMPA. This can be easily analyzed in the Lake. The Government can research for this.

Hypothesis 3: Cationic Polymers have been dropped to the Lake

Normally this polymers are getting use in industrial water cleaning systems. The polymer is
working as a fluccolant and fix the phosphates and the algae to bigger molecules, that they can be
filtered out to reduce the remaining water of them. This Polymers or Copolymeres they are used as
fluccolants are mostly based on Acrylamids. The amount you need is very small. Only 0,55
mg/cubiccmeter is already enough:( http://www.sbf-online.com/media/pdf/sbf_info_flockung.pdf )
If you calculate this for the entire lake water for the 240 cubic kilometer than you need around 130
tons. A ferric sulfate polymer you can buy in Alibaba.com for 220 USD/ton: (
http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ferric-sulphate-for-purifing-the-river_60364296178.html?
spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.XSLg6P ). This would be for the entire lake the amount of around 30.000
USD.
This Polyacrylamids are toxic and they stay a long time in the environment. And I cant believe,
that this is allowed by Indonesian law to do something like this. With normal analyzing methods
you cannot find them. They are to small.
Also they are offered to make eutrophic small ponds around the house clear again. There are many
products on the market.
But who can drop 130 tons of the Polyacrylamids to the lake? How this can work with the whole
Lake Toba? Who is interested in this to do it? How to drop 130 tons of chemicals to the lake, that
nobody recognize this. There are now some scenario we have heard, how this can work:

Scenario One: The Government has done it

Lake Toba should get one of the destinations the government see a huge potential for a touristic
development. They just buy the chemical and drop this 130 tons with one aircraft from the TNI in
the night from a high above 5000 m to the lake. Nobody will recognize this on the ground.
But also in the TNI are people working, the material need to be ordered, imported and so on. The
motivation of people in the government will not be high enough to create and to fulfill the scenario.

Scenario Two: The Aquafarms have done it

For this scenario than lets look a little bit deeper in the story. Already the two Ministers Rizal

Ramli and Luhut B. Panjaitan said often, that all the Aquafarms will be removed from the Lake in
2016. A lot of Environment Initiatives want the Aquafarms leave lake Toba, because they argue, that
the Aquafarms destroyed the water Quality of the Lake. Then Greenpeace and also European media
look at the lake. The Tilapia fish, the Swiss Company RegalSprings Holding AG produce with their
Indonesian daughter PT.Aquafarm Nusantara, is getting sold as sustainable fish in America and in
Europe high priced. With a dieing lake in the background all the Business of world biggest Tilapia
farm in Lake Toba is gone.
Regal Springs would loose the ASC Certificate, if they cannot show a lower phosphate
concentration than 20 micrograms per liter and a visibility higher than 2 meter. The last testings of
the government gave an average result of 330 micrograms per liter and the visibility went down to
50-80 cm at end of April 2016. (A video of the Visibilitly from the 14th of April 2016:
https://youtu.be/BB00s3G66AM) In the last Audit in December 2015 Regal Springs didnt show
the results for phosphates. But the Audit report remain them to give the results to the ASC. If they
would give the result of 330 micrograms then they loose the certificate. If they would manipulate
the lake, to reduce below 20 micrograms, then they can hold the Certificate.
The Acrylpolymers to make the whole lake clear again, this would only be 30.000 USD.
(http://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Ferric-sulphate-for-purifing-the-river_60364296178.html?
spm=a2700.7724838.0.0.XSLg6P ).
That this company all the time not really complain with the Indonesian laws, this you can read
yourself in the published Audits for the ASC Sustainable label on the webpage www.asc-aqua.org.
Until February they dont made the water testing for the phosphates. And they only can sell the fish
as ASC-certified anymore, if they show, that the total phosphate concentration of the remaining
water is below 20 micrograms/Liter. But the Lake before has had 330! Something has to be
happened. Rudi Lamprecht, the founder of Regal Springs will know this. How to reduce the
phosphates, that they go down below 20 microgram?
Here a sreenshot from the Final Audit of the ASC-Certification from February 2016, which shows, that the Aquafarm
dont provides a phosphate testing and that the concentration of phosphates have to be less than 20 micrograms and the
visibility more than 2 m. Source: http://www.asc-aqua.org/upload/3_20160201_PT%20Aquafarm%20Nusantara_Lake
%20Toba%20Farm_FINAL.pdf

That he dont want to give up, that shows, that he renovated after the heavy complain of the Lake
Toba Heritage Foundation the fish composting area in Silimalombu. He still want to show, that he
make a nice sustainable Business.
That this is in no way a sustainable Business, this is clear for everybody, who just can think:

The fish food comes from Brazil and America from the American Company Cargill, Genetic
manipulated soy treated with RoundUp from Monsanto shipped to Indonesia,

getting enriched with Phosphates, than dropped as swimming pellets to the fish pools.

The fingerlings (fish babies) getting transgendered with the anabolic Androgen MH 17 to
male

The Tilapia is getting fat in the floating cages. One floating cage contains at the end before
harvesting around 60 tons of Tilapia. The amount is so huge, that the fish cannot really move
anymore. This is the concept of the Aquaculture Industry, because than the fish needs less
nutrition.

All the Excrement going direct to the lake. Around 200 tons a day. Full of Nitrates and
Phosphates. All the time Regal Springs could be happy that the Pora-Pora fish established
himself around the cages to eat the waste and the local fishermen took them out. But at the
end of 2015 the Pora Pora disappeared, because the PH was getting to high and at the remote
areas at the coast there was no oxygen anymore that the babies could survive. Now all is
going to the Lake.

than they are growing in 6 month up to 1 kg (normally the Tilapia eats algae and needs 6
years to get this weight),

Then the fish getting transported with steel tanks 2 hours to Ajibata and than with trucks
(alive!) around 6 hours to the processing unit in Medan. There the Tilapia filets are getting
frozen. On the trip to Medan the fish will have huge stress and they will produce a lot of the
carcinogen stress hormone Cortisol.

More than 60 percent is getting transported to the US and the rest is getting sold in Europe.

Why he dont produce the fish in America directly? There is just one simple answer: It is not
allowed to pollute the lakes in the US or in Europe with this kind of fish food. But in Indonesia he
can destroy the whole Lake Toba. He knows, what he is doing here in Indonesia!
Out of this to invest the 30.000 USD to buy the Acrylamids from China would be easy for him. He
produce every day around 120 tons of Tilapia which are sold than approximately maybe for around
5 USD/kilo to his wholesalers and restaurants. Until the consumer he has the full Logistic chain.
This will be the amount of around 600.000 USD/day. Therefore 30.000 is just 5 % Investment of a
day turnaround. Even the effort to drop the Polyacrylamids on the lake is maybe much higher and
the price he sold the fish from PT Aquafarm to Regalssprings Corp. in America is much less it is a
small investment to continue his lake destroying business.
For the Owner Rudi Lamprecht, he even offered the headman of Silimalombu, where one fish farm
of his company is located at Lake Toba just up to 180.000 USD, after the headman send him a letter,
where he accused Lamprecht, that he has destroyed the water of lake Toba and the people have to
buy the drinking water. (Here the Link to the letter from the Headman of Silimalombu to Rudi
Lamprecht: http://www.laketoba.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Surat-Lamprecht.pdf
To drop the 120 tons of chemicals to the Lake it is for PT. Aquafarm Nusantara easy. Every day
around 10 trucks bring the fish food in 40 kg bags. Its needs 200 tons of food each day. They are
getting packed on the boats to deliver them to the fish cages around the lake. For the 120 tons of
needed Polyacrylamids it needs around 4-5 boatloads. Loading one boat in the evening. Doing this
at five days and spread the bags of chemicals on the lake, its only need 3 people they drive the boat
and open the bags and drop the Polyamidacryls to the Lake. After 5 days, the work is done. But to
go around with the Polyacylamids it is really dangerous and carcinogen if it is getting into contact
with water. The substance also can go in less than 30 seconds through the rubber cloves and can go
inside the skin and can cause there thrombosis and also it is really neurotoxic.
(http://www.dghtserver.de/foren/showthread.php?t=23017)
If the hypothesis 3 is right, than the workers will go to a hospital and than they will tell about the
thing, they have worked on. Even when they got money that they dont talk about this, what they
have done. Maybe Regal Springs told them, that they give something to the water, what the whole
lake make clean again. That they can be proud, to do this. But this should stay as a secret.
But Rudi Lamprecht is a clever man, therefore he would not give this dirt to his workers, because he
know, that if they are getting ill, they will tell. Therefore Hypothesis 3 cannot be right.

Hypthesis 4: The Datu around Lake Toba made a meeting and

made the water clean again.
Around Lake Toba still the old power of the Datus (Magic People) is alive. If you want to meet
them and you search for them, you can find them. Still a lot of people believe, that the Datu can
change the weather, can heal persons, can speak with already died people and so on. And if you ask
the people around Lake Toba, still a lot will believe in the abilities of the Datu. I asked several
people, if the Datu also can change the water of the Lake to a clean Lake again. The answer of a lot
of Batak was the same: One Datu cannot do it, but if all of them make a meeting together to do it
then maybe they can! And the people confirm this with a strong nod.
And maybe it is like this and the Government of Samosir believe the same. And with the even more
stronger getting acceptance of alternative religions than also the Central Government in Jakarta is
following this opinion to show, that Indonesia show the motto of Indonesia: Bhinneka tunggal
ika : Unity of the diversity.