Businessmen reminded

SEMARANG (JP): Deputy chairman of the National Environment Protection Agency (Bapedal) Nabil Makarim has urged businessmen to construct water treatment facilities for their industrial waste.

Nabil said in a ceremony to proclaim Babon river in Genuk Subdistrict, Central Java, as a pilot project for the Clean River Program, over the weekend, that businessmen supporting the program will not have to pay any import duty for the raw materials they need.

He also said there will be no financial problems for them to establish the water treatment facilities since there are an abundance of credit facilities from international and local financial institutions.

Meanwhile Director for Water and Land Pollution Control Gempur Adnan said that the government will increase the number of provinces and rivers joining the clean river program from 13 provinces with 25 rivers involved during the fifth five-year development program to 17 provinces with 35 rivers in the ongoing sixth five-year development program.

He also said that Bapedal will disclose the names of those companies which pollute the environment beginning in June 1995.(imn)