Cleanup campaign in North Jakarta

Cleanup campaign in North Jakarta

JAKARTA (JP): Alumni of the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange
Program will organize about 1,000 people, including scuba divers,
to remove rubbish from Molek Beach on the Ancol coastline in
North Jakarta today.

Coordinator Leonas Chatim said yesterday the one-day
initiative, staged in conjunction with this week's 1997 Clean Up
the World Campaign, will be held between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m..

Chatim said the campaign was frequently canceled due to a
scarcity of funds needed to buy "basic items such as rubbish bags
and protective gloves".

"We needed a minimum of Rp 6 million (USS$2,030) to pay for
the equipment and materials and until Wednesday the situation
looked pretty hopeless," he said in a statement.

"Fortunately," he said. "The Australian mining company BHP and
the Australian-Indonesia joint venture bank ANZ Panin Bank came
to the plan's rescue."

A similar campaign will be held at Kotok Island in the Pulau
Seribu islands off Jakarta Bay tomorrow.

The island's cleanup day is jointly organized by Kul Kul Kotok
Island Resort and Dive Indonesia, whose members are mostly
expatriates. (jun/bsr)