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CDM project for solid waste management makes Bekasi an urban innovator in eco-friendly development
BEKASI, July 2, 2008 – Today, the Municipality of Bekasi took an important step towards becoming a greener society with the activation of a new methane gas flaring facility at the TPA Sumur Batu landfill. With this, the wheels of an innovative Emission Reduction Purchase Agreement between the World Bank and PT Gikoko Kogyo Indonesia are now in motion, giving Bekasi a new stream of revenue from the sale of Certified Emissions Reductions while also contributing to a healthier global environment. “Clean development mechanisms like the one adopted by Bekasi not only help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but also improve solid waste management in line with the Solid Waste Management Act (No 18/2008) and provide potential funding to local communities particularly who live around the landfill”, said Rachmat Witoelar, State Minister for Environment of the Republic of Indonesia at a ceremony to mark the first flaring. Through this initiative, Bekasi is setting a shining example for environmental conservation while bringing economic and social objectives together”. The Sumur Batu landfill in Bekasi, which lies on the northeast boundary of TPA Bantar Gebang (DKI Jakarta’s landfill) receives up to seven hundred cubic meters of solid waste each day. The flaring facility, built by clean-air engineers PT Gikoko, collects the methane gas generated during the decomposition process in the landfill and then flares it, effectively reducing the greenhouse gases emitted by the Bekasi landfill. Methane is a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 21 times higher than carbon dioxide, the main contributor to global warming. Under the agreement for Bekasi, the World Bank as trustee for the Netherlands Clean Development Mechanism Facility, will purchase 250,000 tons of CO2-equivalent of Certified Emissions Reductions (CER) up to the end of 2012. From the deal signed between the World Bank and PT Gikoko, seventeen percent of the revenues generated will go towards improving the livelihood of waste pickers living around the site, as well as improving waste collection rates in the area.. “The purchase is made possible by the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, which allows countries to achieve their emission reduction quotas by purchasing credits from projects in developing countries like Indonesia,” said Joachim von Amsberg, Indonesia Country Director, World Bank. “But the true winner in this arrangement we see today in Bekasi is Indonesia itself, as it has managed to find innovative ways to enhance local development as well as play an active role in addressing global warning.” The Bekasi landfill gas flaring project is only the third of its kind in Indonesia. Last year, the World Bank facilitated a similar agreement, also in cooperation with PT Gikoko, to capture and flare methane from a landfill in Pontianak, West Kalimantan. Pontianak and Bekasi both resulted from a Bilateral CDM Purchase Agreement between the governments of the Netherlands and Indonesia. Another such project is currently being prepared in Makassar, South Sulawesi. To learn more about the World Bank’s support for Indonesia visit: www.worldbank.org/id - #####-
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