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Administrative issues still loom over ITF operation
Almost six months after its groundbreaking in December, the operation of Jakarta’s first waste-to-energy plant, called the intermediate treatment facility (ITF), in Sunter, North Jakarta, is still dogged by administrative difficulties
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span>Almost six months after its groundbreaking in December, the operation of Jakarta’s first waste-to-energy plant, called the intermediate treatment facility (ITF), in Sunter, North Jakarta, is still dogged by administrative difficulties.
Currently, the Jakarta administration is proposing the revision of Bylaw No. 3/2013 on waste management, which will regulate the waste management service fee (BLPS), or “tipping fee”, that the city administration must pay to the operator.
“God willing, the [bylaw] revision will accelerate the development of other ITFs, so that the target to build at least four ITFs in Jakarta can be realized,” Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan told reporters after a plenary meeting at the City Council on Tuesday.
According to the 2012 to 2023 master plan for garbage management in Jakarta, the city must develop four waste-to-energy plants in Sunter — the first location for an ITF — and Marunda in North Jakarta, Cakung-Cilincing in East Jakarta and Duri Kosambi in West Jakarta.
City-owned developer PT Jakarta Propertindo’s (Jakpro) project director for the ITF Aditya B. Laksana told The Jakarta Post that the Jakarta Environment Agency was currently studying the tipping fee through an independent consultant based on a proposal submitted by PT Jakarta Solusi Lestari (JSL).
“The changes [in the bylaw] are to accommodate the waste management service fee and other things,” he said.
JSL is a joint venture between Jakpro and Finland’s state-owned energy company Fortum.
Jakpro business development director Hanief Arie Setianto said the details of the tipping fee would be included in a gubernatorial regulation or a gubernatorial decree, while the proposed revision of the existing bylaw would only include the general formula for the tipping fee.
ITF Sunter is expected to incinerate about a quarter of the 7,500 tons of waste the city produces every day.
The waste-to-energy technology is expected to produce 35 megawatt hours (Mwh) of electricity on average, some 280,000 MW a year.
“The electricity generated will be transmitted to the electricity network owned by state-owned electricity company PLN through a substation in Kemayoran, Central Jakarta,” Aditya said.
However, the firm is still discussing the power purchase agreement (PPA) with PLN.
“The PPA will be done after the issuance of the letter of assignment from the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry to PLN,” he added.
Operation of the ITF is expected to reduce the volume of Jakarta’s waste dumped in Bantar Gebang waste treatment facility in Bekasi, West Java, which has almost reached its maximum capacity of 49 million tons of waste after 30 years of operation.
The development of four ITFs is expected to reduce by up to 80 percent the volume of waste sent to Bantar Gebang.
The Jakarta Environment Agency’s Bantar Gebang management head, Asep Kuswanto, said the city administration was currently in the process of land acquisition for the other ITFs.
He said the land required was up to 5 hectares each. However the project in Duri Kosambi must be moved to Cengkareng, West Jakarta, because the land initially chosen is owned by city-owned sewerage company PD PAL Jaya.
“If [the process] runs well, we will acquire land in Cengkareng,” Asep said, adding that the city administration was currently preparing the feasibility study for the three ITFs, expected to be complete by middle of next year.
“Afterward, we will wait for the guidance [from the governor], whether [the project] will be put out for tender or direct appointment [to a city-owned company],” he said.
