Rawa Kucing residents complain Indah Kiat's waste<\/p>\n
Multa Fidrus
\nThe Jakarta Post
\nTangerang<\/p>\n
Residents who live close to the Rawa Kucing dumping site in
\nthe Neglasari subdistrict of Tangerang expressed serious concern
\non Thursday about the effects of polluted air from the solid
\nwaste being disposed there by the Tangerang regency's sanitation
\nagency.<\/p>\n
\"The waste, which produces such a bad smell, really disturbs
\nus -- we've had to inhale household waste every day, and now we
\nare facing even worse smells which could cause disease,\"
\nAchmadi, a local resident, told The Jakarta Post.<\/p>\n
Achmadi added that the municipal administration needed to take
\nstern measures against a factory that dumped the waste at the
\nsite.<\/p>\n
\"If nothing is done, the factory will continue dumping waste
\nthere, and residents will suffer from respiratory disease from
\ninhaling the polluted air,\" he said.<\/p>\n
According to an official of the Tangerang municipality's
\nsanitation agency, the waste left there belonged to PT Indah
\nKiat, a pulp and paper producing company on Jl. Raya Serpong
\nkilometer 8, Tangerang.<\/p>\n
\"We have received reports from the municipal irrigation agency
\nwhich said that they had caught an agency truck disposing of
\nsolid waste belonging to PT Indah Kiat on Feb. 3,\" said the
\nofficial, speaking on anonymity.<\/p>\n
Chudori, an official at the regency sanitation agency,
\nconfirmed that his agency's satlak (executive unit) had disposed
\nPT Indah Kiat's factory waste at Rawa Kucing, saying that only
\nhousehold waste was allowed to be disposed at the dumping site.<\/p>\n
He said that the Rawa Kucing dumping site belonged to the
\nmunicipal administration, so there was no regency sanitation's
\ngarbage truck could dispose wastes there.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Hardjono, an official the municipal environment
\nagency office, said that his office had yet to receive reports
\nabout factory waste at the disposal, so that the agency could not
\ntake stern measure against the company and regency sanitation's
\nexecutive unit.<\/p>\n
\"If you want to know more about the matter, please go and ask
\nthe municipal public work agency,\" Hardjono, who is also chairman
\nof Tangerang environmental law enforcement team told the Post.<\/p>\n
In a separate incident, PT Indah Kiat spokesman Luffy
\nPrakuncoro denied that the company was disposing of solid waste
\nat Rawa Kucing dumping site.<\/p>\n
\"It's not true, because we do not dispose factory waste,\" he
\ntold the Post by phone.<\/p>\n
He added that, in handling the factory's 20 tons of waste
\nproduced daily, the company had cooperated with the Tangerang
\nregency sanitation's satlak, which should recycle the
\nwaste into fertilizer, in accordance with agreement with PT Indah
\nKiat.<\/p>",
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