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dari kegiatan ekonomi&pemukiman penduduk. ________________________________ From: item abu <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:15 PM Subject: Re: [proletar] Indonesian Lives Risked on ‘World’s Most Polluted’ River + A Community Struggles With Jakarta’s Water Qualit Citarum itu adalah sungai paling kotor sedunia, dan bisa dipastikan si pinpin ikut memberikan kontribusinya. Dan bangga sekali si pinpin itu dgn konstribusinya tsb. >________________________________ > From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:14 PM >Subject: [proletar] Indonesian Lives Risked on ‘World’s Most Polluted’ River + >A Community Struggles With Jakarta’s Water Qualit > > > >Ref: Agaknya sungai-sungai tercemar dan kwalitas air bersih sama dengan air >kotor adalah hal yang tidak penting bagi kehidupan penduduk NKRI, sebab >mungkin ada problem-problem lain yang dianggap lebih penting untuk diatasi >oleh penguasa, sekalipun air bersih adalah kebutuhan utama bagi manusia hidup >sehat dan sejahtera. > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/indonesian-lives-risked-on-worlds-most-polluted-river/542964?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=jgnewsletter >Indonesian Lives Risked on ‘World’s Most Polluted’ River >September 07, 2012 > >A man uses a fishing new to collect plastic waste from the Citarum river in >Bandung in West Java on July 6, 2012. A water source for the capital Jakarta, >the Citarum river has succumbed to pollution through sewage and industrial >waste. (AFP Photo/Timur Matahari) Sukamaju. With dozens of bright green rice >paddies, flocks of kites in the sky and children laughing nearby, at first >glance the village of Sukamaju in western Java has all the charms of rural >Indonesia. > >But the idyllic setting is spoiled by a strong stench rising from the Citarum >river that flows in the distance, thick with mounds of garbage and plastic >bags dumped on its banks. > >This immense aquatic rubbish bin winds 297 kilometers (185 miles) across the >island of Java, cutting through the sprawling Indonesian capital, Jakarta. > >Labelled “the most-polluted in the world” by a local commission of government >agencies and NGOs charged with its clean-up, the river is the only source of >water for 15 million Indonesians who live on its banks, despite the risks to >health and crops. > >In the village of Sukamaju, not far from the bustling West Java capital of >Bandung, a well at a small village square serves as a public shower. Without >any other water source in the village, it is connected directly to the canal. > >Noor, a villager in her 40s, has had white patches on her arms for the past >six months. > >“When I first started itching, it was always after washing here. It’s because >of the contaminated water in the river. It’s the factories’ fault,” she said. > >“I don’t know what this disease is, but I don’t have any money to see a >doctor.” > >The Bandung Basin is the historic center of Indonesia’s textile industry, >where 1,500 factories in the region dump 280 tons of toxic waste each day into >the Citarum. > >In the irrigation canals of Sukamaju, between the rice paddies, the water for >crops that runs through the fields is a puzzling deep red verging on black. > >“This is because of the dyes from the factories. The color changes every two >hours (depending on dyes being washed out), and that has a direct impact on >the quality of the rice,” complained Deni Riswandani, as he dissected a young >sprig. > >“There are no more grains in the pods. Production has been reduced 50 percent >from the normal harvest,” said Riswandani, who is trying to bring farmers >together to lobby for financial compensation. > >Health effects go unaddressed > >At the edge of the plantation stands a massive grey building equipped with >several chimneys and surrounded by barbed wire. On the coast, a valve >connected to the factory dumps toxic residue at regular intervals right by the >rice paddies. > >“Normally, factories can’t dispose waste into the water without treating it,” >Riswandani said. “In theory, there are very heavy penalties for doing this, >but the government pretends there are regular checks. But on the ground >nothing changes.” > >According to Windya Wardhani, head of the West Java provincial environment >bureau: “We practice intensive control, and I think that gradually the >factories will comply with the rules. But perhaps not every day,” she said. > >“There are heavy metals in the Citarum’s water and sediment, probably because >of the factories, since you don’t find heavy metals in rubbish.” > >She said the river contained mercury, lead, zinc and chrome, which have been >linked to cancer, organ damage and even death, affecting babies and children >more severely. > >Mercury and lead can cause joint disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis, and >diseases of the kidneys, circulatory system and nervous system, studies show. > >Residents have sought compensation for their damaged rice crops, while the >health effects of the river have gone unaddressed, with no data yet gathered >to measure the extent of the problem. > >The Indonesian Textiles Association asserts that the industry’s contribution >to the river’s pollution is no more than 15 to 25 percent. > >“It comes mostly from domestic waste and plastic. It is unfair to assume it’s >all us. It’s easy to count the number of factories, but who’s counting the >number of people who live along the river and throw their waste in the water?” >said Kevin Hartanto, head of the Bandung chapter of the textile association. > >Cleaning up the Citarum river and its 22 streams has been classified a >national priority by the Indonesian government, which in 2010 launched a huge >15-year project to rehabilitate the river. > >Largely financed by the private sector, this “road map” involves dozens of >NGOs, seven ministries and 12 local governments, amounting to a total of $3.5 >billion. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will contribute $500 million. > >According to Thomas Panella, an ADB water resources specialist, progress has >so far been minimal. > >“At this point there has been little improvement because it’s been a very >short time [in which] to address the pollution issues,” he said. > >“We need to look at lessons of countries like France, the US and Korea that >had incredibly polluted waterways in the first part of this century. You would >think at that time it was not possible to address these things. You have to >have a long-term vision.” > >Agence France-Presse >+++++ >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/a-community-struggles-with-jakartas-water-quality/541714 >A Community Struggles With Jakarta’s Water Quality >Jonathan Vit | September 02, 2012 > >Muhammad Taher’s modest one-story home in North Jakarta’s Cilincing >subdistrict is a short walk from the colorful fishing boats moored along the >shore of Jakarta Bay. Discarded mussel shells crunch under foot as he >navigates the narrow maze-like alleys, turning sideways to squeeze between >people standing outside food stalls and tin-roofed shacks. > >The streets of Cilincing are still dirt, but the main road leading into the >slum was just recently paved with rough concrete. It’s one of the few signs of >development in a place seemingly untouched by Jakarta’s wealth. > >Taher walks through a blizzard of buzzing black flies as he approaches the >bay. The pungent smell of fish is overpowering. Dozens of people — men, women >and children — are huddled around piles of black mussels. Cilincing is a >community devoted to a single cause. Some 12,000 households work to harvest >mussels, one of the few creatures that can survive the pollution of the >Jakarta Bay. > >Taher points out the children squatting around a pile of mussels, their thin >fingers separating meat from shell. > >“Children at these ages are not supposed to work,” Taher says. “They are not >supposed to worry about money. They should just play with their friends and >not think about their family’s income.” > >It wasn’t always this way. Taher recalls growing up in Cilincing, back when >the water was still clear and his father could cast a net and catch fish from >the shore. > >“It was not a life of the rich, but we never felt any hunger,” he says. > >Today, fishing boats bob on the dark waters of Jakarta Bay, a body of water so >polluted by solid waste and industrial runoff that the bay is rapidly becoming >eutrophic — or so depleted of oxygen that large fish can no longer survive, >according to a Unesco report. > >“The government really does not want to know about the problems in Jakarta >Bay,” Taher says. > >Taher is one of the 7,000 traditional fishermen still living in the capital. >His livelihood, like the 7.8 million impoverished fishermen living along the >coasts of Indonesia, depends on the sea. Most of Indonesia’s traditional >fishermen live on $1 a day. Twenty-eight percent survive on even less, says >Slamet Daroini, the manager of education and public fund-raising at the >Fisheries Justice Coalition. > >According to experts, decades of unchecked pollution, rampant overfishing and >inadequate infrastructure have taken a serious toll on the nation’s waters, >hampering fishermen’s ability to earn a living. > >All thirteen rivers running into Jakarta Bay are heavily polluted by human >waste, which, due to the capital’s inadequate sewage treatment facilities, >carries bacteria-laden feces directly into the bay, according to the Unesco >report and environmental experts. > >Industrial manufacturers also dump dangerous liquid waste into the rivers, >Slamet says. A survey of Jakarta’s waterways conducted by the Jakarta Office >of Urban Environmental Study in 1997 found high levels of heavy metals — >including lead, mercury and copper — and polychlorobiphenyls (PCBs) in Jakarta >Bay. The contaminants, known to cause cancer and heavy metal poisoning, were >found in sea life, birds and people at the time of the study. > >Pollution of Jakarta’s rivers and bay had steadily increased since 1983, the >study found. > >In the nearly three decades that followed, the situation has failed to >improve, Slamet says. He details reports of companies secretly dumping >industrial waste into the river during the rainy season, when the rivers, and >many of Jakarta’s low-lying neighborhoods on their banks, are overflowing with >water. > >The dumping is illegal, Slamet says, but enforcement is lax. > >“The government cannot — or does not want to — penalize these companies,” >Slamet says. > >The pollution has driven Cilincing’s fishermen further out to sea, where they >have to compete with anglers from Jakarta’s Thousand Islands for an >increasingly limited stock of fish. > >On Panggang Island the impact of overfishing is so extreme its effects can be >seen from a plane. Marine biologist Elizabeth M.P. Madin has observed the lack >of algae “halos” around the island’s coral reefs in satellite images. > >In a study on the effects of overfishing of coral reefs, Madin explained that >in reefs with a healthy population of predatory fish, smaller plant-eating >fish only travel a short distance from the safety of the reef to feed. Their >feeding habits produce halos around the reefs. > >The halos are no longer visible on reefs near Panggang Island, according to >the report published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports. > >“What our results show is that fishing can have surprising, but very clear, >effects throughout coral reef ecosystems,” Madin said in a press release >announcing the findings. > >For Taher, traveling nearly 13 kilometers to cleaner waters no longer makes >economic sense. He used to charter a larger boat with other local fishermen >and head out for three days at a time. But the fuel, food and supplies needed >for a fishing trip to the Thousand Islands could cost the men more than Rp 2.5 >million ($261). > >On good trips, Taher was able to take home Rp 150,000. During lean times, he >brought home Rp 50,000. He now fishes on a “bagan” — a wooden platform >suspended above open water — to save money. > >“It is really difficult now to go fishing and there is no balance between the >costs and the [money] made,” he says. “That is why there are so many who >stopped being traditional fishermen.” > >Only 25 percent of Cilincing’s men still fish, Taher said. And most of the >remaining fishermen are drowning in debts owed to the loan sharks who started >to circle once the community fell on hard times. > >They offer the men predatory loans at 25 to 30 percent interest rates, Taher >says. It’s a dangerous system, but one that many fishermen turn to when they >cannot afford to feed their families, he explained. > >“We sometimes can only pay the interest,” Taher says. “Many of the traditional >fishermen who once had houses lost them.” > >Taher sees hope in the community’s mussel harvest. He walks through the >bustling community, proudly explaining how the shellfish have allowed his >neighbors to survive. > >But the mussels, like much of the sea life found in Jakarta Bay, have been >contaminated by heavy metals. The local government stopped issuing permits to >farm mussels from Jakarta Bay last year, explaining that the filter feeders >absorb the toxic chemicals found in the bay. > >But the residents of Cilincing have few other options, Taher says. > >A weathered 55-year-old man interrupts Taher’s tour talk with a slight >handshake. Mansyur used to be a fisherman, but he now harvests mussels. The >changes, he said, are heartbreaking. > >“I feel very sad seeing these bad changes,” Mansyur says. “I cry inside my >heart because all of the changes are so extreme and none of them bring any >good.” > >Mansyur has lived through the regimes of Sukarno and Suharto, the economic >collapse and the ensuing recovery. But it is Indonesia's economic growth, and >the population and manufacturing boom it fuels in Jakarta, that may prove to >be too much. > >If Jakarta, and the rest of the nation, fails to curb pollution and dumping, >traditional fishermen may become a thing of the past, Slamet says. > >"In my opinion, the fishermen do not have any future in Jakarta," he says. > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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