Garbage And Floods Become Homework For Palembang City Government

Chairman of the DPRD Palembang Zainal Abidin/Photo: Antara

PALEMBANG - The Regional House of Representatives (DPRD) of Palembang City, South Sumatra said that waste management and flooding is one of the special notes given to the City Government because it is still a problem that has not been handled optimally. "We convey this in the context of realizing urban infrastructure development. which is evenly integrated, sustainable and environmentally friendly," said Chairman of the Palembang City DPRD Zainal Abidin at the 2023 Development Plan Deliberation (Musrenbang) in Palembang, Monday, March 14. puddles and has the potential to become flooded in several places. He assessed that the Palembang City Government should be more productive in cleaning sewerage operations and realizing the construction of flood control infrastructure such as the creation of new catchment areas or retention ponds. Flood control carried out by the Palembang PUPR Service is only 54 percent, so this can happen, so in our opinion it needs to be optimized again in next year's work plan to solve this problem," he said, quoted by Antara. waste that is closely related to the flood problem so that it is difficult to handle.

His party has formulated that there are two aspects that must be addressed, namely the utilization of the Waste Bank and TPS 3R programs that have been implemented by the City Government since several years ago. indiscriminately)," he added. In the 2023 Musrenbang, the Palembang DPRD in general conveyed several special notes to the City Government which are expected to be realized in addition to waste and flood management. Each City Government must optimize efforts to improve the community's economy, education, health, volume to capacity ratio roads (VCR), mitigation of COVID-19, development of the tourism-sports culture sector and particularly poverty alleviation, which recorded 194.12 thousand people.