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Ahok suspicious of dumpsite's chaotic conditions
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Garbage trucks queue on the road that heads to the Bantargebang garbage treatment facility in Bekasi, West Java. (kompas.com/David Oliver Purba)
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akarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has suspected the private companies that had lost their contracts in managing the waste treatment facility in Bantargebang, Bekasi, West Java, of being behind the facility's chaotic conditions.
Ahok ordered the relevant officials to investigate the facility due to an occurrence in which a long queue of garbage trucks were stalled on the road to the Bantargebang dumpsite, which forced drivers to wait for 12 hours before dropping off their garbage.
Recently, the Jakarta administration completed a takeover of the facility's management from two private companies.
Ahok also speculated that in the past the truck drivers discharged the garbage at a dumpsite near Ciliwung River instead of at its intended facility in Bantargebang.
“In the upstream areas of Ciliwung, there was a dump site. In the past, the garbage might have only been dumped there,” Ahok said in Jakarta on Monday as reported by kompas.com.
Another possible reason for the chaos, he added, was due to the increase in garbage collected after the administration started to intensify its efforts to clean up the city, including from rivers, after the takeover.
“After the takeover, it was clear that we needed more garbage trucks,” he said, adding the amount of garbage transported to Bantargebang had increased to between 8,000 to 9000 tons per days from 5,000 to 6,000 tons per day. (bbn)
