KLH Warns Sea Waste To Start Entering Bali Region

Minister Of Environment/Head Of BPLH Hanif Faisol Nurofiq/ANTARA/Prisca Triferna

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Environment (KLH) warned that plastic waste was starting to be found carried away by many currents on several beaches in Bali and interventions were immediately carried out to reduce its piles.

"We will immediately handle it because last night I received a report from the Bali Environmental Control Agency, Nusra, that there is marine waste that has started entering Bali," said the Minister of Environment (LH)/Head of the Environmental Control Agency (BPLH) Hanif Faisol Nurofiq after a multi-party consolidation meeting to formulate strategic steps after INC-5.2 reported by ANTARA, Thursday, August 21.

He said reports from the Bali and Nusa Tenggara Environmental Control Centers said that marine debris had begun to be found in waters and beaches in Bali, one of the favorite locations for tourists in Indonesia.

Regarding the report, he said the government would immediately intervene in handling its employees and the Ministry of Environment and Environment and Forestry (KLH)/BPLH will coordinate with the National Coordination Team for Handling Marine Waste (TKN PSL) regarding the issue.

Leaking garbage into the ocean itself is one of the consequences of waste management that is not optimal in various regions. This is because waste wasted in the environment in various parts of the river basin can end up in the sea and be carried by currents to other areas, even other countries.

The Minister of Environment and Forestry gave an example of how the Ciliwung watershed with upstream in the Gunung Gende and Pangrango areas in West Java passed through many areas until it finally started in North Jakarta. In areas that Ciliwung passes, four of them generate 3 thousand tons per day with TPA that do not function optimally.

"So that finally the garbage runs into rivers, rivers into the sea. This is then what we have to handle fundamentally, that's why the policies that we take seriously at the land level. But at sea there is also legislation or plastic that is already there, which we still have to handle," he said.