Pramono Is Happy, Paying Tipping Fees For Waste Processing Projects Will Be Assisted By The Central Government

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JAKARTA - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung said he was happy with the plan to make a new presidential regulation (perpres) that regulates waste processing projects in the regions.

One of them is the provision regarding changes to the tipping fee payment scheme or the per ton of waste that the government has to pay investors as facility managers.

"If that can be done, then Jakarta is one of the most happy because the waste issue will definitely be resolved soon," said Pramono at DKI Jakarta City Hall, Wednesday, March 19.

In the new scheme later, there will be a distribution of the cost burden of tipping fees between the local government and the central government. Pramono gave an example, the DKI Provincial Government will pay 14 to 15 US dollars per managed waste, then the rest will be paid by the central government.

"Then there are differences so that the business runs to 17, or 18, or 20 (US dollars per ton) and so on. Well, this difference is shared between the regional government and the central government," Pramono explained.

According to Pramono, this scheme will reduce the burden of the DKI Provincial Government's APBD. This is because so far the construction of waste management projects into electrical energy has been hampered due to the DKI Provincial Government being unable to pay the tipping fee to investors completely.

"In the past it could not be decided and hopefully in Pak Prabowo's leadership it will be decided. If it is pursued, then I am sure that the problem of waste throughout Indonesia, especially in big cities, will be resolved," he explained.

The discourse on changing the tipping fee financing scheme was revealed when the Coordinating Minister (Menko) for Food Zulkifli Hasan, Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture Pratikno, Minister of Environment (MenLH) Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, Governor of DKI Jakarta Pramono Anung and a number of other officials visited the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Management Site (TPST), Bekasi, West Java.

During the review, Zulkifli Hasan (Zulhas) said that the government was discussing changes to the tipping fee scheme in the operation of waste processing facilities. Tipping fees are the costs that must be paid by the government to investors as the waste management, the amount of which is calculated based on the tonnage of processed waste.

"Indeed, to resolve (the waste problem) there was a statement about the rules that we had to perfect, there were no more tipping fees and others," said Zulhas in Bekasi, West Java, Wednesday, March 19.

Zulhas said President Prabowo Subianto is currently merging three presidential regulations related to waste management to simplify the mechanism for licensing waste management to the resulting energy sales.

This is expected to make investors more interested in building incinerators or waste processing facilities into electrical energy with combustion technology.

"Again in the process of becoming one Presidential Decree. Later there will be sufficient permission from the (Ministry) of Energy and Mineral Resources which is simplified directly to entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs do not need to deal with local governments anymore, with DPRD and so on, there is no need to deal with the Minister of Finance. Just permission from ESDM, direct contract with PLN," explained Zulhas.