ITF Target Starts Construction Before Anies Baswedan Leaves

DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan (Photo: Diah Ayu Wardani/VOI)

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Environmental Agency, Asep Kuswanto, admitted that he would pursue the target of building a number of intermediate treatment facilities (ITF).

He targets the ITF to start construction in mid-2022 or before the term of office of DKI Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan ends.

The ITF development, said Asep, was included in one of the programs that Anies had instructed to do immediately. The ITF is included in Ingub Number 49 of 2021 concerning the Settlement of Regional Priority Issues for 2021-2022.

"Indeed, the ITF is part of the governor's promise. At the very least, there must be progress. In the future, we can accelerate it. The target is to start construction by the middle of next year," Asep told reporters, Thursday, October 14.

The DKI Provincial Government plans to build ITFs in four locations, namely ITF Sunter in North Jakarta, then ITF in West Jakarta, East Jakarta, and South Jakarta.

The Sunter ITF and the western region are managed by the BUMD PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro). Meanwhile, the eastern and southern ITFs are being carried out by Perumda Pembangunan Sarana Jaya. Currently, Asep explained, the progress of the Sunter ITF being carried out by Jakpro has begun to enter pre-construction. In the ITF development plan in the western region, Jakpro has collaborated with the PT Wijaya Karya (WIKA)-PT Indoplas Karya Energi (Indoplas) consortium for the construction process.

Meanwhile, the ITF in the eastern and southern regions that Sarana Jaya is working on is still in the process of selecting the tender winner as a construction partner.

"Hopefully, in the middle of next year, Sarana Jaya can start selecting prospective partners so that they can then build the construction," said Asep.

It is said that the Sunter ITF will cost Rp 5.2 trillion. Meanwhile, the ITF in the western, eastern, and southern regions cost Rp 4 trillion to build. "This financing is purely from a third party, not from the APBD," he said.