Development in Tengah Island Suspected Not Accordance with AMDAL
Reported by Suparni | Translated by Trias Risangayu
The Seribu Islands Environment Management Office (KLH) suspected that the reclamation of Tengah Island, Seribu Selatan Island has violated rules due to not accordance with Procedures for issuing environmental impact analysis (Amdal). It must be halted.
The permission authority for 5-15 hectares reclamation is directly to City Administration. So, we want them to halt it first
According to Tiur Maeda Hutapea, Head of Seribu Islands Environment Management Office (KLH), the development permit in Tengah Island is in City Administration level. Thus he hoped, the city administration could halt it temporarily.
“The permission authority for 5-15 hectares reclamation is directly to City Administration. So, we want them to halt it first,” he uttered, Wednesday (10/28).
33 PPSU Officers of Seribu Island Recruited From Outside of the AreaAccording to Hutapea, the bad impact is very real and clear. In Pari and Lancang Islands, the seaweed cannot live and extinct since reclamation project is exist in Tengah Island.
"The developer only has the ecology study, instead of AMDAL. This is violation," he stated.
She disclosed that the rule must remain be enforced, although the tax rate on the island is progressively imposed the highest classification of luxury homes, and the developer has provided support Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to establish Sea Water Reverse Osmosis (SWRO).
