Micro-entrepreneurs put in jail for littering<\/p>\n
Theresia Sufa, The Jakarta Post, Bogor<\/p>\n
The Cibinong District Court sentenced on Thursday eight owners of
\nlead-battery recycling shops to five months in jail each for
\npolluting the environment, and ordered them to comply with
\nregulations if they wanted to resume their business.<\/p>\n
"This court has handed down a sentence more lenient than that
\ndemanded by the prosecutors, because the defendants have little
\nknowledge that such a business could be hazardous to the
\nenvironment as well as the people's health, and that they must
\nobtain approval from the Bogor environment office to run the
\nbusiness," Presiding Judge Marsudin Nainggolan told the
\ncourtroom.<\/p>\n
Earlier on Wednesday, prosecutor Jamil Zaini had proposed a
\nsix-month jail term for each of them.<\/p>\n
Nurhasan Sahibudin, Awang Nasuhi, Dadang Eon, Parjo Asingan,
\nOndi Toing, Jaya Emad, Herman and Ulung had started the battery-
\nrecycling home businesses in 1992 in Cinangka village, Ciampea,
\nBogor.<\/p>\n
They recycled the lead foil lining the inside of the batteries
\ninto blocks of lead, each weighing about 30 kilograms. The market
\nprice for each kilogram of lead is about Rp 2,000.<\/p>\n
The Indonesian Center for Environmental Law (ICEL)
\nnevertheless said the legal system was discriminative, in that
\ntycoons and mega-corporations with factories allegedly dumping
\nwaste were left free to pollute the environment -- with far more
\ndamaging consequences than a home-recycling shop.<\/p>",
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