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Jakarta must stay with garbage operator, for now
Dirty business: Garbage trucks enter the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Treatment Area (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java, on Friday
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Dirty business: Garbage trucks enter the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Treatment Area (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java, on Friday. Jakartaâs waste management has been almost paralyzed over the last few days after a dispute between the Jakarta administration and PT Godang Tua Jaya, the Bantar Gebang landfill operator, erupted two weeks ago. Garbage trucks from Jakarta can only enter the area at the agreed operational hours of 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (JP/P.J. Leo) (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java, on Friday. Jakartaâs waste management has been almost paralyzed over the last few days after a dispute between the Jakarta administration and PT Godang Tua Jaya, the Bantar Gebang landfill operator, erupted two weeks ago. Garbage trucks from Jakarta can only enter the area at the agreed operational hours of 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (JP/P.J. Leo)
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span class="inline inline-center">Dirty business: Garbage trucks enter the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Treatment Area (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java, on Friday. Jakarta's waste management has been almost paralyzed over the last few days after a dispute between the Jakarta administration and PT Godang Tua Jaya, the Bantar Gebang landfill operator, erupted two weeks ago. Garbage trucks from Jakarta can only enter the area at the agreed operational hours of 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. (JP/P.J. Leo)
Although the Jakarta city administration is disappointed with the performance of PT Godang Tua Jaya (GTJ), operators of the Bantar Gebang garbage treatment facility in Bekasi, West Java, it cannot immediately end its contract with the company because doing so would take months to finalize.
Therefore, the city administration still needs to allocate funding for tipping fees at the Bekasi facility in the 2016 city budget.
Jakarta governor Basuki 'Ahok' Tjahaja Purnama said that the decision to end the contract would be made in February after he received a response from PT GTJ to the administration's third warning letter.
"We will still allocate funding for tipping fees for several months from now. The decision will be made in February,' said Ahok at City Hall on Thursday, adding that the contract could not be ended until 105 days after a third warning letter had been sent.
The city administration has sent its first waring letter, because, according to a Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) report, PT GTJ had failed to fulfill the requirements stipulated in its 15-year contract for treating Jakarta's waste, which started in 2008. The BPK said that the company had failed to purchase agreed technology for treating some 6,500 tons of garbage daily produced in the city.
Ahok said previously that the city administration would manage the Bantar Gebang garbage treatment facility by itself after its contract ended with PT GTJ. (bbn)(+)
