Approaching rainy season in upcoming November, North Jakarta Administration begins to anticipate water-borne trash. Predictably, its amount would increase from 1,200 tons last year to 1,400 tons this year.

B ased on last year’s experience, the (trash volume) increase reached 200 tons

Head of Cleanliness Control Section for North Jakarta Cleanliness Sub-Department, Sutadi, predicts there would be increase in trash volume for as much as 200 tons, with almost all of the trashes come from 13 rivers that disembogue in North Jakarta, such as Angke River, Sunte r River, and Ciliwung River. From 1,200 tons of trash volume last year, 280 tons of it was water-borne trash.

“We can’t be sure yet. But based on last year’s experience, the (trash volume) increase reached 200 tons,” he said, Friday (10/31).

According to Sutadi, the highest increase in trash volume last year occurred in Penjaringan Sub-District. For this year, he cannot predict the percentage increase between other sub-districts.

All this time, as many as 1,762 field officers consist of 700 freelance workers, 589 regular workers, and 473 officers from Parks and Water Management Public Works sub-departments are working to pick up the trashes. Entering rainy season, Sutadi claims will intensify supervision.

“There are no additional officers. But if there were trash piles, we will mobilize the officers to concentrate at those points,” he stated.