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Jakarta cancels Bantar Gebang management contract
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A worker passes by a methane gas pipe at the Bantar Gebang waste management facility in Bekasi, West Java on June 19. (Antara/Risky Andrianto)
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he Jakarta administration ended its contract with PT Godang Tua Jaya (GTJ) and Navigat Organic Energy Indonesia (NOEI) on Tuesday, the two companies that had been responsible for the management of solid waste at the Bantar Gebang waste treatment facility in Bekasi, West Java.
“We take over today,” said Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama in Jakarta.
The takeover of management at the waste treatment facility on Tuesday follows closely on the heels of a third warning letter sent to the companies by the Jakarta City Sanitation Agency on July 6.
Based on an audit carried out by PriceWaterhouse Coopers, the two companies failed to carry out their job as outlined in contract documents, particularly in regard to the development of gasification landfill anaerobic digestion (galfad).
Jakarta City Sanitation Agency head Isnawa Aji said that the agency plans to recruit workers from the two companies. The 315 workers have been working there [at the Banter Gebang waste treatment facility],” Aji said as reported by kompas.com on Tuesday.
The workers will be employed by the city administration to work at the waste treatment facility, he said.
PT GTJ director Douglas Manurung said that the city administration had not informed him of its plan to take over the waste treatment facility.
“Since the beginning [of the dispute], we have wanted to talk about it because waste treatment work is a multi-dimensional problem. We may have faults, but the city administration is at fault too,” he added.
Jakarta produces 6,000 tons of garbage each day and almost all of this is treated at the Bantar Gebang waste treatment facility.
The contract initially began on Dec. 5, 2008 and was due to expire on Dec. 7, 2023. (bbn)
