Four sites identified to replace Bantar Gebang<\/p>\n
Ahmad Junaidi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Some days ahead of the closure of the rubbish dump in Bantar
\nGebang, the City Administration claimed on Thursday to have
\nsecured four alternative sites.<\/p>\n
\"The four locations can accommodate city garbage for more than
\ntwo years,\" Governor Sutiyoso said here on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The four sites are a 65-hectare plot in Tegal Alur and a six-
\nhectare plot in Kapuk, both in West Jakarta; a five-hectare
\nformer dump site in Cacing (Cakung Cilincing) area in North
\nJakarta and an eight-hectare former dump site in Pulo Gebang,
\nEast Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The four locations will replace the garbage dump site in
\nBantar Gebang, which will be closed by the Bekasi municipality on
\nMonday.<\/p>\n
Bekasi has previously said that it would close the Bantar
\nGebang dump site because the city administration was unable to
\nhandle environmental concerns.<\/p>\n
But actually the problem is because the city administration
\nrefused to hand over 50 percent of the 104-hectare dump site to
\nthe Bekasi municipality. Sutiyoso said last month that he would
\nnot meet the demands.<\/p>\n
The city administration has previously listed the former dump
\nsites in Srengseng and Muara Kamal, both in West Jakarta, and
\nJonggol in Bogor as alternatives to the Bantar Gebang site.<\/p>\n
But the sites in Srengseng and Muara Kamal were not named to
\navoid protests from local residents.<\/p>\n
The use of the four locations might be hindered by local
\nresidents' protests since the city administration would use an
\nopen dumping system.<\/p>\n
City Sanitary Agency head Saksono Soehodo said negotiations to
\nuse a privately-owned 40-hectare plot in Jonggol was still
\nunderway with the owners, PT Wira Golfindo.<\/p>\n
If an agreement could be signed by this year, the private dump
\nsite could be used to accommodate the city's garbage -- more than
\n25,000 cubic meters or 6,000 tons a day -- for five years,
\nstarting in April.<\/p>\n
The administration will only pay an annual rental fee of about
\nRp 30 billion while the private firm will handle permits from the
\nBogor regency.<\/p>\n
\"The private dump has been offered a year ago. It's a chance
\nfor private businessmen to handle garbage processing,\" Saksono
\nsaid, refusing to mention the businessman's name.<\/p>\n
Saksono, who retires in April, also denied that he would
\nbecome a commissioner of the private firm which would use huge
\nincinerators and a sanitary land fill system to deal with the
\ngarbage.<\/p>\n
Separately, the regency council deputy chairman Albert Pribadi
\nseemed shocked about the planned dump site, saying that the plan
\nwould be rejected by the council.<\/p>\n
\"We haven't been told yet. It would be rejected by our
\nresidents,\" Albert told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Besides PT Wira Golfindo, three other private companies which
\nclaimed to use advanced technology are expected to operate here
\nin 2003.<\/p>\n
The three firms are PT Bio Fertilizer Indonesia (BFI) in West
\nJakarta, PT Inter Indo Global in East Jakarta and PT Putra Bakti
\nMahkota in North Jakarta.<\/p>\n
PT BFI plans to build its plant in Duri Kosambi which could
\nprocess 1,800 tons of garbage a day while PT Putra Bakti proposed
\nto process 2000 tons of garbage a day in its plant in Marunda,
\nNorth Jakarta.<\/p>\n
The city administration allocated Rp 90 billion for the
\nhandling of garbage this year; Rp 11 billion for maintenance;
\nRp 66 billion for the purchase of trucks and excavators and other
\nheavy equipment. Last year's budget for the garbage handling was
\nRp 43 billion.<\/p>",
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