PEKALONGAN - Pekalongan City Government, Central Java, allocated Rp9.6 billion for handling waste emergency. This fund is outside the regional budget (APBD) this year.
"The budget comes from a shift in refocusing funds (reviewing) of Rp. 8 billion and Rp. 1.6 billion from unexpected spending," said Pekalongan City Regional Secretary Nur Priyantomo in Pekalongan, Antara, Tuesday, April 22.
The waste management equipment is expected to arrive in the next two months to three months. The shift in the budget for handling waste emergency is carried out outside of discussion activities or the determination of the APBD so that the local government budget team seeks to shift from the available budget.
Budget refocusing, he added, will focus on priority matters such as purchasing equipment, fulfilling human resource needs, and socializing to the public to better understand the current waste emergency conditions.
"We hope that this moment will be a turning point to change the paradigm or mindset of the community. Waste must begin to be sorted between organic and non-organic so that management at TPSR and TPST is easier, both for burning and making compost," he said.
He said that he had submitted a draft regional regulation (Raperda) on waste management to the DPRD to be discussed as a legal umbrella.
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"The handling of waste cannot only be done downstream but must start from upstream. We make sure that no more waste is thrown into the Degayu TPA," he said.
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