Residents Feel The Smell Of RDF Plant Rorotan Garbage, Project Manager: We Are Very Sorry

RDF Plant Rorotan (doc. Department of Environment)

Commissioning is a testing and inspection process to ensure the system and equipment function according to specifications. This process started last weekend.

Project Manager Pembangunan RDF Plant Jakarta KSO Wika-Jaya Konstruksi, Angga Bagus apologized for the incident.

"We are very sorry for the incident that was felt by residents around the RDF Plant Jakarta. We ensure that the incident does not happen again, and will take preventive steps so that similar incidents do not happen again," Angga said in his statement, Thursday, February 13.

Angga explained that the leaking of an unpleasant odor in the commissioning process of this waste processing facility into fuel occurred due to the preparation process (set up) of the Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) unit at the deodorizer, which at that time was not fully operational.

Currently, Angga claims the entire system has been running perfectly and is ready to operate optimally.

The tuning process of this odor and smoke control equipment has caused the equipment to not work optimally. If the set-up is complete, it will definitely work well," explained Angga.

To overcome the incident, the RDF Plant Jakarta technical team evaluated the work of the deodorizer system so that this facility could operate according to environmental standards.

"In the future, we ensure that all odor control technology will work optimally, so that the Jakarta RDF Plant can operate without negative impacts on the surrounding community," he added.

Sebagai informasi, pembangunan RDF Plant Rorotan dimulai pada Mei 2024. RDF Plant Rorotan menjadi fasilitas pengolahan sampah menjadi energi setingkat batu bara yang kedua kalinya dibangun Pemprov DKI. RDF plant pertama dibangun di TPST Bantargebang, Bekasi, Jawa Barat, dan kini telah beroperasi.

Dalam proses pembangunannya, Pemprov DKI menghabiskan dana Rp1,28 triliun yang bersumber dari APBD. Targetnya, pengerjaan konstruksi akan selesai pada Desember 2024, lalu beroperasi pada 2025, setelah Gubernur-Wakil Gubernur Jakarta definitif dilantik.

RDF Plant Rorotan was built on land owned by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government covering an area of 7.87 hectares located in Rorotan Village, Cilincing District.