The Tangerang regency administration has welcomed the Jakarta administration’s plan to process at least 2,000 tons of garbage per day at a processing plant to be built in Ciangir village, Legok district.
“We hope an agreement with the Jakarta administration on the garbage management cooperation that applies the ‘zero waste concept’ can be signed [this week],” Herry Heryanto, head of the Tangerang Parks and Sanitation Agency, told The Jakarta Post recently.
He added the cooperation would be benefit both regions.
“Jakarta can process 2,000 tons of garbage at the plant each day, while Tangerang can also send 1,000 tons of garbage to the site,” he said, adding Tangerang produced 1,200 cubic meters of garbage per day.
In addition, the Jakarta administration has also agreed to recruit 1,300 local residents to work at the plant that will turn 70 percent of the garbage into bricks and another 30 percent into organic fertilizer.
Herry said the Jakarta administration had secured 98 hectares of land on which the plant would be built, starting next March.
“We don’t have the funds to process the garbage, but Jakarta does. It has also secured 98 hectares of land in the village, and that’s why we welcome such collaboration,” he said.
He added that to produce the organic fertilizer at the site, the administrations had also signed an agreement with five fertilizer companies, and one with state electricity firm PT PLN to produce bricks.
Herry said analyses of the environmental, social, economic and legal impacts from the construction of the facility were now underway.
But Indra Setiawan, an activist from Banten Environment Watch, said more advanced studies were needed on garbage handling, traffic to the sites, and necessary precautions to limit the negative impacts.
“The management of the dumps and Jakarta must be consistent in using proper garbage processing technology. The Bantargebang case should not be repeated in Tangerang,” he said.
Bantargebang in Bekasi, West Java, is the capital’s main landfill. The 104-hectare site was shut down after its contract expired in January 2004 and nearby residents protested against its environmental impact.
It was reopened following a new agreement between the Jakarta and Bekasi administrations. Residents agreed to allow garbage trucks to enter the site after Bekasi promised to pay Rp 50,000 per month to each family in the area.
— Multa Fidrus
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