Bira environment study still being considered<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja denied yesterday
\nreports which said that the city administration has accepted,
\nwith annotation, the results of an environmental impact analysis
\non the controversial Bira island.<\/p>\n
The governor explained that the environmental impact analysis
\ncommission only accepted the document of the analysis but did not
\nmake any decision on it.<\/p>\n
The commission had a meeting on Friday to evaluate a study,
\nconducted on the environmental condition of the island. It was
\nthe fourth meeting held by the commission regarding the Bira
\nIsland case. The commission turned down the analysis for the
\ndevelopment of a golf course project on the island for the third
\ntime last February because the report failed to meet the set
\nstandard.<\/p>\n
An environmental impact assessment must be carried out before
\na developer can obtain permission for any development project.<\/p>\n
Aboejoewono Aboeprajitno, head of the City Environment Office,
\nand the commission's secretary, said over the weekend that the
\ncommission has now accepted the developer's environmental impact
\nstudy of Bira Island with certain qualifications.<\/p>\n
\"We accept the Bira Island environmental analysis on certain
\nconditions -- we haven't accepted it whole,\" Aboejoewono said.<\/p>\n
\"The developer, for example, should make some changes to the
\nstudy. The commission has given the consulting firm two weeks to
\nrevise the analysis,\" he added.<\/p>\n
The consulting firm, PT Consartha Indomartha, has agreed to
\nrevise the analysis within the two weeks allowed.<\/p>\n
However, these remarks were denied by the governor. \"It is not
\ntrue that the city has accepted the results of the analysis. I
\nhave asked the commission about the matter and its officials told
\nme that they were only accepting the document of the analysis and
\nthat they have not made any decision,\" Surjadi told reporters at
\nCity Hall yesterday.<\/p>\n
Asked when the decision on the island will be made, the
\ngovernor said that his office will process the report as soon as
\npossible.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, a member of the City Council's Indonesian Democracy
\nParty faction, Romulus Sihombing, urged the commission to tell
\nthe truth about the results of Friday's meeting.<\/p>\n
\"Don't make any statement which could cause confusion among
\nthe people. If no decision was made over the study, don't say the
\nopposite because this is a sensitive matter. Even the President
\nis interested in the matter,\" Romulus said.<\/p>\n
He said the commission should also give clear facts and
\nexplain the process of the meeting, and its results, to the
\ngovernor.<\/p>\n
\"After that, report the results to the public, so as to make
\nthem understand the problem clearly,\" he added. (yns\/31)<\/p>",
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