Minister Of Health Proposes Chinese Lobby To Lend Pollution Detection Vehicles

DOK ANTARA

JAKARTA - Minister of Health (Menkes) Budi Gunadi Sadikin proposed the loan of China's mobile reference monitor vehicle to analyze the quality of urban air in Indonesia.

"We propose to lobby to China if possible, the car (mobile reference monitor) will be loaned to Indonesia, at least a year," said Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin in the agenda of a working meeting (raker) with Commission IX of the DPR as reported by ANTARA, Wednesday, August 30.

Mobile reference monitor is in the form of a pollution hotspot detection car equipped with laboratory technology to analyze deeply the source of the pollutant.

The vehicle allows the authorities in Indonesia to detect precisely and real time source pollutants, whether they originate from vehicle emissions, Diesel Power Plants (PLTD), Steam Power Plants (PLTU), burning garbage, or other sources.

Indonesia, continued the Minister of Health, is in need of a molecular weight detection device, molecular shape, and molecular chemistry, to assist in the process of identifying pollutants.

Of the four equipment needs, two of them are owned by the Ministry of Health, namely High Volume Air Sampler (HVAS) which is available as many as four units in Jakarta for sampling and detection of PM2.5 levels.

Another tool that is also owned by the Ministry of Health is the Chromotography Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) gas for the identification of the molecular weight of the PM2.5 pollutant compound.

Two other tools that the Ministry of Health does not yet have are X-ray flouresence to identify the molecular form of the PM2.5 pollutant compound, as well as fourier transform infrared to identify the chemical bonding type of the PM2.5 pollutant compound.

"We will prepare this, whether the cause is PLTU or whatever, so as not to blame each other. Because with this simple technology we can," he said.