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Patimban port's environmental permit to be issued mid-February
The Environment and Forestry Ministry is expected to issue an environmental permit for the construction of Patimban Seaport in Subang, West Java, next month as the Amdal Assessment Commission (KPA) has begun assessing the project’s environmental impact analysis (Amdal) report.
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Workers are finishing the construction of a peer at Patimban Seaport in Subang, West Java. (tempo.co/Nanang Sutisna)
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he Environment and Forestry Ministry is expected to issue an environmental permit for the construction of Patimban Seaport in Subang, West Java, next month as the Amdal Assessment Commission (KPA) has begun assessing the project’s environmental impact analysis (amdal) report.
Amdal Assessment Commission (KPA) member Anang Sudarna said assessment of the amdal begun Thursday and was expected to be finished before the end of the month.
“In mid-February, the environmental permit is expected to be issued,” said Anang, who is also head of the West Java Environment Management Agency, as reported by tempo.co.
(Read also: Government will construct ‘U’ islet for Patimban seaport: Official)
The port is planned to have two sections—one section will be developed on a new 350-hectare U-shaped islet and the other section will be developed on a 250 to 300-hectare plot of land.
Anang said he had not looked at the project’s amdal yet, but he hoped that it would explain in detail the project's environmental impacts and how they could be mitigated.
The port will have a container capacity of 1.5 million 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) once it is partly completed by 2019 and then 7.5 million TEUs by 2027, which is half the capacity of Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port, the country’s busiest port.
The total investment for the Patimban project is estimated to be around Rp 40 trillion (US$3 billion). The government is expected to control a 51-percent majority stake in the project, in which state-owned seaport operator Pelindo II will own 10 percent with investment worth Rp 4 trillion. (bbn)
