Businessmen reminded

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)