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Environmentalists seal Serpong-Cinere toll road construction site
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Environmentalists from OKP Ganespa put up banners along the Serpong-Cinere toll road construction project on Thursday. They claim the road is being built on a conservation area of Sasak Lake, Pamulang. (wartakota.tribunnews.com/Andika Panduwinata)
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everal environmentalists under the name OKP Ganespa from South Tangerang on Thursday blocked the construction site of the Serpong-Cinere toll road.
The activists erected banners on the toll road site near Sasak Tinggi lake in Pamulang, demanding that PT Cinere Serpong Jaya (CSJ) stop their construction there. The activists accused the company of building the road on a conservation and water absorption area around the lake.
OKP Ganespa coordinator Hafids Fidon said the action was following up a similar protest they staged on March 22 in front of South Tangerang City Hall in Ciputat.
“This is our fifth protest. On behalf of the residents around the lake, we demand that CSJ stop their project,” he said as reported by wartakota.tribunnews.com on Thursday.
A resident named Soleh said the toll road construction had yet to fulfill all of the administrative requirements.
However, CSJ head M. Irsan Setiabudi claimed the opposite. “We have permits from environmental impact analysis (Amdal) as well as from all neighborhood and community units in the municipality,” he said.
Irsan has yet to decide whether to stop or continue the construction project. “We’ll let [the activists] calm down first, we can’t decide right away,” he added. (vla)
