Industrial waste

Industrial waste

From Pikiran Rakyat

We residents of Cibeureum village, South Cimahi district,
Bandung, West Java, are very concerned about the location of PT
Cimindi Subur and PT Metro Blue Jean Washing situated at Cempaka
village, Andir District. The waste disposal methods of these
industries are not in line with the regulations stipulated in the
GBHN (Broad Lines of the State Policy) to the effect that: "In
industrial development attempts should be made to always preserve
the existing environment and avoid pollution and environmental
damage.

The factories seem to dispose of their industrial wastes by
discharging it into the river Cibeureum which has heavily
polluted it. The waste produced by PT Cimindi Subur can be
noticed in the morning as the water looks black and vapor rises
from it. At a certain point down the river the waste mixes with
the waste produced by PT Blue Jean Washing, and this waste
mixture then flows towards our area.

The problem is that the wells of the people living on either
side of the river are polluted resulting from seepage. The color
of the well water is dark, and the water is smelly and poisonous.
Because of this pollution, some of the nearby fauna is dying.

We earnestly ask the companies to treat their industrial waste
before they dump it into the Cibeureum river.

CECEP WAWAN

Bandung, West Java