Firm offers to process garbage

Firm offers to process garbage

JAKARTA: Private firm PT Geosis Telekomunika, which is partly
owned by the Navy, proposed to the city administration on
Wednesday to process the city's garbage into organic fertilizer
at its planned plant in Marunda, North Jakarta.

After receiving the firm's president, Anugerah Bomasanta, at
City Hall, City Governor Sutiyoso said the firm would provide a
100 hectare plot in Marunda for processing the garbage.

"We appreciate any offer to process the garbage which benefits
the administration," Sutiyoso told reporters.

Another firm, PT Bio Fertilizer Indonesia, has signed a
memorandum of understanding to process the garbage into
fertilizer.

The company would process the garbage at its plant in Duri
Kosambi, West Jakarta with its 2 hectare plot provided by the
administration.

Jakarta produces 25,000 cubic meters of garbage a day, most of
which is dumped in the city's Bantar Gebang garbage dump in
Bekasi.-JP