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Construction of Greater Jakarta’s waste-to-energy plants underway
The contents of four landfills in Greater Jakarta are be channeled to incinerators to produce electricity, but the construction of the facilities has been sluggish.
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A worker installs a banner about the groundbreaking ceremony of an intermediate treatment facility in Sunter, North Jakarta on Dec. 20, 2018. (Tempo/ M Julnis Firmansyah)
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aste management problems have long plagued Greater Jakarta, which largely relies on the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java, as its final dumpsite.
Among the several strategies the government has come up with to deal with the problem is the development of waste-to-energy (WTE) technology for the capital and three satellite cities — Tangerang and South Tangerang in Banten and Bekasi in West Java.
The four are among 12 cities and regencies prioritized under Presidential Regulation (Perpres) No. 35/2018 on the acceleration of construction of thermal generation facilities for converting waste into electricity with environmentally sound technology.
The mining and energy infrastructure deputy assistant of the Office of the Coordinating Maritime Affairs and Investments Minister, Yohannes Yudi Prabangkara, said the 12 cities voluntarily registered for the project because of the severe waste problems in their areas.
“But if the feasibility study shows that the [WTE] technology is not feasible for an area that is applying, [the administration] does not proceed,” he told The Jakarta Post on Friday.
The Jakarta administration has planned to develop four WTE plants, called intermediate treatment facilities (ITF), to anticipate the Bantar Gebang landfill surpassing its capacity by 2021.
A city-owned developer, PT Jakarta Propertindo, is still finalizing the paperwork for the first ITF in Sunter, North Jakarta, despite Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan having held the official groundbreaking ceremony for the project in December last year.
