DKI Provincial Government Reminds Trucks To Dispose Of GOODs Threatened With 60 Days

Illustration. Private sedot business workers in Cipayung, East Jakarta cleaned up the splash that littered the residential area, Monday, March 9, 2020. (ANTARA-Andi F)

JAKARTA - Head of the DKI Jakarta Environmental Agency, Asep Kuswanto, reminded that there is a criminal threat for 60 days to perpetrators of littering, especially trucks that have been caught several times disposing of waste in any place.

In fact, Asep explained, this criminal threat has been contained in Regional Regulation (Perda) Number 8 of 2007 concerning Public Order.

In Article 21 letter c, it is stated that every person or body is prohibited from throwing large and small water on roads, green routes, parks, rivers, and waterways.

Meanwhile, Article 61 paragraph (1) contains a minimum imprisonment of 10 days and a maximum of 60 days or a fine of at least Rp. 100,000 and a maximum of Rp. 20 million from the violation of Article 21.

"The Environment Agency has coordinated with the Civil Service Police Unit. We will implement the General Order Regional Regulation on the perpetrators in the future," Asep said in his statement, Wednesday, May 10.

So far, sanctions that are often applied by the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to perpetrators of haphazard disposal are still limited to administrative fines to the revocation of business licenses. Now, the DKI Jakarta Environment Agency will coordinate with the Metro Jaya Police regarding the application of these criminal sanctions.

"We have held a coordination meeting with the Koorwas PPNS Polda Metro Jaya and the Polda Metro Jaya Police Unit, this strict sanction can be applied," said Asep.

In the applicable regulations, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government requires the provider of human waste extraction services to dispose of it to the Tinja Mud Processing Installation (IPLT) in PD PAL Jaya in the Duri Kosambi, West Jakarta and Pulogebang areas, East Jakarta.