Bantar Gebang scavengers find rotten meat

Bantar Gebang scavengers find rotten meat

Dozens of scavengers at Bantar Gebang dump in Bekasi municipality
found tons of rotten meat on Sunday, which was unloaded from two
container trucks.

"We suspect that the trucks came from Tanjung Priok Port in
North Jakarta," Nurdin, head of Bantar Gebang Scavengers
Community, was quoted as saying by Antara news agency.

On Sunday morning, dozens of scavengers were combing through
garbage, looking for items that could be recycled, in zone IV of
the dump when they noticed a horrible stench, other than the
usual smell of rotting garbage.

They tracked down the putrid smell until they found chunks of
rotten meat scattered around the zone.

Some scavengers reported their finding to Bantar Gebang Police
who immediately sent some officers to the scene.

Bantar Gebang Police chief Adj. Comr. Didik Soekamto said that
he suspected the meat came from container trucks from Tanjung
Priok. "But we can't calculate the exact amount of the rotten
meat yet."

"I have instructed my officers and asked help from local
authorities to have the rotten meat buried this afternoon," he
said on Sunday.

He added that Bantar Gebang Police would look into the
possibility that the meat might have been illegally imported.

Information gathered from witnesses at the scene revealed that
six container trucks had entered the dump in the early hours of
Sunday.

The witnesses said that four of the six trucks left the dump
almost immediately, while the other two departed later.

The scavengers suspected the four container trucks did not
unload the contents as they were afraid of drawing too much
attention.

Container trucks would indeed draw the attention of locals as
usually only dump trucks enter the site, which is used by the
Jakarta administration to dump 6,000 tons of trash daily. -- JP