Central Govt Picks Up Pace on Jakarta Sewage System
Jakarta. The central government is selecting consultants for its Jakarta Sewage System, reinvigorating a project to provide an integrated sanitary system for most parts of the capital city.
The $1.2 billion project has been stuck in the drawing board since 2011 when the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), an independent Japanese government agency, completed a study that concluded the capital needs 14 new zones of waste water service to improve its sewage and sanitary system.
Today, Jakarta's water disposal system is only available for 4 percent of the capital's total area. Its biological oxygen demand level — a measure of organic pollutant level in water — reached a worrying 84 milligrams per liter.
Jakarta's sanitation system is the second worst among other Southeast Asian capital cities, according to the Committee for Acceleration of Priority Infrastructure Delivery (KPPIP).
"I hope the consultant can be appointed by next week," Minister of Public Works and Public Housing Basuki Hadimuljono said on Friday (03/02). The KPPIP's original plan said the project should have commenced construction last year.
The ministry will start off by finishing a waste water processing system in Zone 1 in Pluit, North Jakarta, and in Zone 6 in Duri Kosambi, West Jakarta. Construction in the other zones is being handled by he Jakarta government.
Basuki estimated the Zone 1 waste water system will cost the government Rp 8.1 trillion and Zone 6 will cost Rp 8.7 trillion. The two zones will have a combined capacity of processing 480,000 cubic meters of waste water per day.
The government expects the water disposal project can boost Jakarta's sanitary system's coverage to 75 percent by 2022.
Jakarta, home to 10 million people, now has only one waste water processing facility in Setiabudi, South Jakarta.
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