Heru Budi Soal Nasib Pembangunan ITF Sunter: Boleh Aja, Tapi Pemda Tak Mampu Memberikan Tipping Fee

Acting Governor Of DKI Heru Budi Hartono At TPST Bantargebang, Bekasi, West Java (Diah A-VOI)

JAKARTA - Acting Governor of DKI Jakarta Heru Budi Hartono admitted that he did not close the opportunity for the construction of the Sunter Intermediate Treatment Facility (ITF). Although, currently the development plan has been temporarily suspended.

However, when the Sunter ITF was successfully built and operational, Heru admitted that the DKI Provincial Government was unable to pay the Tipping fee fee to the waste processing facility management partner to become electrical energy.

"I basically allow B2B (business-to-business), but the DKI Regional Government is unable to provide a tipping fee," said Heru at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Friday, July 28.

Therefore, Heru plans to develop the Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) project. The first RDF has been operating in Bantargebang. Furthermore, the DKI Provincial Government plans to rebuild 2 RDFs in Rorotan in North Jakarta and Pegadungan in West Jakarta.

However, Heru welcomes DKI regional-owned enterprises (BUMD) to still want to build the ITF. With a note, there is no corruption fee charged from the APBD.

"We will develop RDF. Go ahead if anyone wants to develop ITF without tipping fees," said Heru.

The DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has actually allocated a budget of IDR 577 billion from the 2023 APBD as the initial capital for the Sunter ITF work. However, Sunter's ITF work this year was canceled.

The calculation is that the investment value for the Sunter ITF development reached IDR 5.2 trillion. This project clearly requires investors from the private sector for funding.

What is burdensome is that when the Sunter ITF operates, the DKI Provincial Government must pay the cost of waste management or tipping fees to investors of around Rp. 500 thousand per tonne of waste processing within a period of 20 to 30 years.

In other words, if an agreement is made with this investor, the DKI Provincial Government must issue a total corruption fee of IDR 36.5 trillion. That too with a record that this value does not increase as long as the contract runs.