DPRD Urges DKI Provincial Government To Pursue City Scale RDF Development

DKI Jakarta Provincial DPRD Building (dprddki.go.id)

JAKARTA - Chairman of Commission D of the DKI Jakarta DPRD, Ida Maheasy, urged the DKI Provincial Government to immediately start the construction of urban-scale refuse derivative fuel (RDF) waste processing facilities.

This is because the DPRD has approved the allocation of the budget for the construction of waste processing into alternative fuel to be built after the operation of the RDF Plant Bantargebang.

"I want the urban-scale RDF construction that has been budgeted for this year to be realized according to the target," said Ida in a statement, Tuesday, April 30.

Ida hopes that with the construction of an urban-scale RDF, waste production from Jakarta will not be fully stockpiled in the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Management Site (TPST) in Bekasi, West Java.

If this waste can be resolved directly in Jakarta, of course it will be more effective and efficient. Starting from reducing congestion to minimizing the costs incurred," he said.

Previously, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Environmental Agency, Asep Kuswanto, said that he would rebuild 2 RDFs in Rorotan in North Jakarta and Pegadungan in West Jakarta.

Asep views that the construction and operation of RDF Plant is more efficient than intermediate treatment facility (ITF). That is why the DKI Provincial Government continues to build a waste processing system into coal equivalent energy.

"The RDF is considered the most suitable for the current DKI Provincial Government, because in terms of cheaper investment financing, cheaper operational costs, faster development. Then, we can sell the proceeds to cement factories," explained Asep some time ago.

"If the ITF is indeed built, it will take three years. The investment alone can be four times greater than the RDF. The operational costs are also much higher," he added.