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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)