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        "msgid": "ancol-canal-polluted-with-wastewater-and-human-faeces-odour-how-the-government-is-addressing-it-1775098301",
        "date": "2026-04-01 22:54:52",
        "title": "Ancol Canal Polluted with Wastewater and Human Faeces Odour: How the Government is Addressing It",
        "author": "Ambaranie Nadia Kemala Movanita",
        "source": "KOMPAS",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "Residents in Ancol, North Jakarta, have complained about the foul smell resembling human faeces emanating from the canal along Jalan Karang Bolong Raya, prompting immediate action from the Jakarta Environmental Agency (DLH). Field inspections revealed low water levels in connecting channels and drainage, with water samples confirming that the primary pollution source is domestic wastewater from households and business activities, exacerbated by inadequate treatment systems. The agency highlighted the need for proper wastewater management, including conventional septic tanks that fail to process greywater and mandatory treatment for business effluents to meet quality standards, underscoring broader environmental governance challenges in urban areas.",
        "content": "<p>The Jakarta Environmental Agency (DLH) has promptly initiated\nimprovements following complaints from numerous residents disturbed by\nthe wastewater odour resembling human faeces from the canal in Jalan\nKarang Bolong Raya, Ancol, North Jakarta. One affected resident, Indos\n(38), who passes the canal daily on his way to and from work, stated:\n\u201cThe smell is like wastewater, like human faeces. As a road user, it\u2019s\nreally pungent even though I\u2019m just passing by,\u201d he said when\ninterviewed at the location on Tuesday (31\/3\/2026). However, Indos could\nnot pinpoint the exact cause of why the canal and nearby drains in Ancol\nalways smell unpleasant. Another resident, Refi (42), experiences\nsimilar disturbances to his sense of smell every time he passes by the\ncanal on Jalan Karang Bolong Raya. He suspects the canal smells due to\npollution from nearby factory waste. \u201cIt\u2019s actually disturbing, but what\ncan we do? I don\u2019t know where the smell comes from or what\u2019s causing it;\nfrom one end to the other, there are factories,\u201d he said at the location\non Tuesday. The private sector worker hopes that in the future, the DLH\nJakarta will carry out improvements so that the canals or drains around\nAncol no longer smell unpleasant. DLH Jakarta\u2019s public relations\nofficer, Yogi Ichwan, stated that they have followed up on residents\u2019\ncomplaints regarding the unpleasant-smelling canal in Jalan Karang\nBolong Raya. One of the actions taken was deploying officers to conduct\nfield checks. The results of the field examination conducted by DLH\nJakarta officers show that the water surface conditions of the\nconnecting channels and drainage in the location are below normal. In\naddition, DLH Jakarta officers also took water samples from the canal at\nthree different points: from the Ancol Barat drainage channel, the\nupstream section of the Jalan Karang Bolong connecting channel, and the\ndownstream section of the Jalan Karang Bolong Raya connecting channel.\nFrom the sampling, it was determined that the dominant pollution source\nin the canal comes from domestic wastewater. \u201cIt was found that the\ndominant pollution source at the mentioned location comes from domestic\nwastewater, both from residential areas and partly from employee\nactivities, as well as companies,\u201d Yogi said in a written statement\nreceived by Kompas.com on Wednesday (1\/4\/2026). This is because the\nmajority of households in Jakarta only have conventional septic tanks,\nwhich only hold blackwater waste without processing greywater waste.\nMeanwhile, business activities are required to treat wastewater and meet\nwastewater quality standards before discharging it into bodies of water.\nIf waste management from these two sources is not carried out properly,\nunpleasant odours will plague the surrounding rivers and canals.\nPollutants from wastewater discharged into rivers or canals will degrade\nnaturally using the oxygen available in the river.<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/ancol-canal-polluted-with-wastewater-and-human-faeces-odour-how-the-government-is-addressing-it-1775098301",
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