Dump operator vows better management

Dump operator vows better management

BEKASI: The new operator of Jakarta's main waste treatment
facility in Bantar Gebang, Bekasi, PT Patriot Bekasi Bangkit
(PBB) told the Bekasi Council's Commission B on oversees economic
affairs that it would gradually reform the waste treatment
system.

PBB director Bagus Indra said that the infrastructure, which
was handed to the company by the Jakarta administration on July
16, 2004, was already in poor condition and the liquid waste
processing system, drainage zone and cover soil system were not
working.

Local residents protested the presence of the facility, which
they claim has polluted the air and groundwater the past several
years, causing them to suffer from many diseases.

In the hearing on Friday evening, councillor Muhamad Hasyim
Efendy said that they would continue monitoring the management of
the dump. "The management company must take the environment into
account," he said. -- JP