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Governor is yet to approve garbage project
JAKARTA (JP): Governor Surjadi Soedirdja said the municipal administration is still studying a plan to build a 25-year build- operation-and-transfer (BOT) between the City Sanitation Office and PT Intan Maru Maskota (IMM) to build a garbage transfer station.
"I have not yet approved it," Governor Surjadi told The Jakarta Post during the opening ceremony of The Education & Training Expo '94 at the Jakarta Hilton Convention Center yesterday.
Director of PT IMM, Suryo Atmadja Sarwono, told the Post the governor still requires more information about the company, including their financial profile, before deciding whether or not to approve the planned project.
Suryo made the remark after presenting the project to the governor and Moch. Subasir, the head of the sanitation office, at the City Hall yesterday.
Subasir said that the project, if approved, would be divided into two phases.
The first phase will deal with the construction of a transfer station in the Duri Kosambi subdistrict before the garbage is transported to the Bantar Gebang garbage dump in Bekasi, an area 35 kilometers east of Jakarta.
The second phase will deal with the construction of a sorting plant to separate organic from plastic waste, and turn it into compost, plus a waste water treatment plant.
The plastic waste, Subasir said, will be sent to PT IMM's plastic factory in Surabaya, East Java, to be recycled into plastic ware.
Suryo said the first phase of the Kosambi construction project, which is estimated to cost Rp 97 billion (US$45.1 million) excluding land compensation, will be financed with a soft loan from Japanese-based Overseas Development Cooperation Fund and the state-owned Bank Exim.
"We have provided a 10-hectare site in Duri Kosambi, West Jakarta, six hectares for the sorting plant and four hectares for waste water treatment plant," Subasir said. He added that the plant would be able to recycle 2,000 tons of organic waste into 500 tons of compost every day.
Subasir said in the future his office might build transfer stations in every subdistrict of the city to reduce the amount of garbage scattered or spilled while being transported to the landfill site.
He said about 4,000 cubic meters of garbage are spilled every day.
When asked about his office's present capacity to manage garbage, Subasir said that the sanitation office, with its 804 garbage trucks, is able to dispose about 19,900 cubic meters, or 83 percent, of the 24,000 cubic meters of garbage the city produces in a day.
The rest are contracted to private sanitation companies. Subasir said there are 15 companies assigned to help dispose the garbage under contractual agreement.
Governor Surjadi warned that the city administration will suspend the contracts of sanitation companies with bad or poor records.
"We are still evaluating the contractors," Surjadi told the Post.
Subasir noted that his office has actually made the list of companies according to their performance, but the office still waited for the governor's evaluation results. (06/11)