DKI Provincial Government Admits Waste Management Using ITF Can Make The APBD Overdrawn By IDR 2 Trillion Per Year

RDF Plant In Bantargebang, Bekasi, West Java/DOK BETWEEN

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Regional Financial Management Agency (BPKD) Michael Rolandi Cesnanta Brata revealed the potential for daeah expenditure if the Intermediate Treatment Facility (ITF) operates.

In the past, ITF was planned to be built in four locations. Each waste processing facility into electrical energy operates, there are 2,000 tons of waste processed every day.

Michael said, if the four ITFs operate, the DKI Provincial Government must spend a budget of up to IDR 2 trillion per year as a result of having to pay waste management costs or tipping fees to management partners.

"The proposed tipping fee is IDR 800 thousand per ton. If you use ITF, Rp800 thousand is multiplied by around 7,000 tons to Rp5.6 billion per day. Then, multiplied by 360 days, it means Rp2 trillion per year. That's people's money," Michael told reporters, Monday, August 14.

Meanwhile, the DKI Provincial Government has to pay a tipping fee for 30 years. That is why, continued Michael, Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono decided to cancel the ITF construction.

Now, the DKI Provincial Government is now preferring to develop the Refuse for the Development of the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Plant as a means of processing Jakarta waste that produces coal-level fuel.

The first RDF has been operating at the location of the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Disposal Site (TPST), Bekasi. Furthermore, the DKI Provincial Government plans to rebuild 2 RDFs in Rorotan in North Jakarta and Pegadungan in West Jakarta.

Garbage that can be processed from the RDF Plant facility is 700 tons per day and is sold to opstekers in collaboration with the DKI Provincial Government.

"The governor's regulation or decision states that the sale of 24-dollar RDF waste processing per ton or IDR 360 thousand per ton. If multiplied by 700 tons, it means IDR 252 million a day, then multiplied by 360 days, meaning IDR 92 billion (per year) we get money," explained Michael.

So, even though the ITF was already planned, the DKI Provincial Government decided to choose a waste processing project by prioritizing the budget efficiency side.

"Where did the government (budget) come from? It's from people's money. So, in my opinion, the use of public money must wisely be able to solve waste and technology properly," he added.