City to go ahead with incinerator project
City to go ahead with incinerator project
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The city administration is to proceed with its plan to procure
expensive incinerators, although critics are questioning why it
is reviving a system that proved inadequate to solve to capital's
recurrent waste problem.
Controversy has also been raised by the city's proposing that
Rp 400 billion (US$43.96 million) be allocated from the draft
2005 budget for the project.
Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Monday that if the
procurement of incinerators resulted in a deficit, the
administration would rely on its emergency reserve fund.
"Our emergency fund exceeds the regulated 5 percent of the
budget. It will be appropriate if we can use some of the surplus
to finance projects that have a beneficial impact for the
public," he said on Monday after a general City Council session
on the 2005 city development plan.
The city has Rp 836 billion in the emergency fund, or 6.6
percent of its 2004 budget of Rp 12.6 trillion.
The administration has proposed to channel Rp 250 billion of
the fund toward financing several major projects, including the
busway expansion, the East Flood Canal construction and the
incinerator project, of which a part is to install four new
incinerators by 2007.
During the session, Fauzi read out a statement from Governor
Sutiyoso in response to councillors' questions on the 2005
development plan.
Sutiyoso said in the statement that the administration had no
other choice but to use incinerators to process its 6,000 tons of
daily waste, because the sanitary landfill and composting systems
required vast property to dump the waste.
"We will not use small incinerators like those that have been
utilized in 21 subdistricts since 2001. The incinerators have a
low capacity and posed adverse environmental impacts," Fauzi
read.
The incinerators being considered burn garbage at 5,000
degrees Celsius, and Singapore, Germany and other European
countries used a similar model, according to Sutiyoso.
However, Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction councillor
Muhayar blasted the administration's plan as "backward".
"The administration dropped the incineration system after it
was found to be ineffective. The city then turned to more
advanced technologies such as bio-fertilizers and bale presses,
so why is it planning to apply a system that failed," he said.
Golkar councillor Zaenudin also urged the administration to
revise the plan. "The administration must give us a good reason
as to why the last incinerator project failed."
A waste management expert with the Agency for the Assessment
and Application of Technology (BPPT), Sri Bebassari, said earlier
that the administration should carry out a feasibility study for
at least three years before implementing the incineration
technology.
"A large incinerator, which can burn around 1,000 tons of
waste a day, costs up to Rp 1.3 trillion to purchase," she said.
The administration bought 15 incinerators between 2000 and
2001, but the machines required a great amount of kerosene to
operate, making them too costly and inefficient, as well as
extremely pollutive.
Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
The city administration is to proceed with its plan to procure
expensive incinerators, although critics are questioning why it
is reviving a system that proved inadequate to solve to capital's
recurrent waste problem.
Controversy has also been raised by the city's proposing that
Rp 400 billion (US$43.96 million) be allocated from the draft
2005 budget for the project.
Deputy Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Monday that if the
procurement of incinerators resulted in a deficit, the
administration would rely on its emergency reserve fund.
"Our emergency fund exceeds the regulated 5 percent of the
budget. It will be appropriate if we can use some of the surplus
to finance projects that have a beneficial impact for the
public," he said on Monday after a general City Council session
on the 2005 city development plan.
The city has Rp 836 billion in the emergency fund, or 6.6
percent of its 2004 budget of Rp 12.6 trillion.
The administration has proposed to channel Rp 250 billion of
the fund toward financing several major projects, including the
busway expansion, the East Flood Canal construction and the
incinerator project, of which a part is to install four new
incinerators by 2007.
During the session, Fauzi read out a statement from Governor
Sutiyoso in response to councillors' questions on the 2005
development plan.
Sutiyoso said in the statement that the administration had no
other choice but to use incinerators to process its 6,000 tons of
daily waste, because the sanitary landfill and composting systems
required vast property to dump the waste.
"We will not use small incinerators like those that have been
utilized in 21 subdistricts since 2001. The incinerators have a
low capacity and posed adverse environmental impacts," Fauzi
read.
The incinerators being considered burn garbage at 5,000
degrees Celsius, and Singapore, Germany and other European
countries used a similar model, according to Sutiyoso.
However, Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) faction councillor
Muhayar blasted the administration's plan as "backward".
"The administration dropped the incineration system after it
was found to be ineffective. The city then turned to more
advanced technologies such as bio-fertilizers and bale presses,
so why is it planning to apply a system that failed," he said.
Golkar councillor Zaenudin also urged the administration to
revise the plan. "The administration must give us a good reason
as to why the last incinerator project failed."
A waste management expert with the Agency for the Assessment
and Application of Technology (BPPT), Sri Bebassari, said earlier
that the administration should carry out a feasibility study for
at least three years before implementing the incineration
technology.
"A large incinerator, which can burn around 1,000 tons of
waste a day, costs up to Rp 1.3 trillion to purchase," she said.
The administration bought 15 incinerators between 2000 and
2001, but the machines required a great amount of kerosene to
operate, making them too costly and inefficient, as well as
extremely pollutive.