Jakarta fails to treat garbage properly

Jakarta fails to treat garbage properly

BEKASI: A councillor from the Bekasi mayoralty criticized the
Jakarta administration on Tuesday for its failure to properly
treat its garbage which is disposed at Bantar Gebang, Bekasi.

Nurul Yakin Setiabudi from the National Mandate Party (PAN)
accused the city administration of being unprofessional in the
waste management, which caused environmental pollution in the
area.

"The city administration should be able to manage the garbage
professionally and not cause pollution impacts as complained by
the residents," he said.

The area was polluted as the city administration failed to
fulfill its promise to manage the garbage under the sanitary
landfill system properly, he was quoted by Antara as saying.

Jakarta disposes most of its 25,000 cubic meters of garbage in
the 104-hectare Bantar Gebang dump. However, last December,
Bekasi closed down the site due to environmental damage. The
decision had caused panic to City Governor Sutiyoso as Jakarta
did not have any proper system to treat the garbage.

Meanwhile the Bekasi mayoralty administration is exploring a
cooperation with the Central Application Solar Energy (CASE), a
company owned by the Australian government, to treat the garbage
at the Bantar Gebang dump.--JP