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BPK Hands Audit Report on B3 Waste Management Monitoring to Environment and Forestry Ministry

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Jakarta, Thursday (1 April 2021) – The Audit board of the Republic of Indonesia (BPK) handed Performance Audit Report (LHP) on Effectiveness of B3 Waste Management Monitoring and B3 Waste Contaminated Land Restoration in Environment and Forestry Ministry (LHK). Board Member IV of BPK, Isma Yatun, handed the audit report to Environment and Forestry Minister, Siti Nurbaya Bakar, virtually, today (1/4).

"The audit report points out some existing problems with government program aims to improve public health as well as environmental quality by reducing any exposure risks to B3 waste," Isma Yatun said. Environment and Forestry Ministry needs to watch and take immediate actions for improvement on some significant problems, such as:

  1. Strategic planning aspects used in B3 waste management monitoring and B3 waste contaminated land restoration were neither complete nor having synergy to mitigate any adverse impacts on human and environment. These might include not only insufficient data on B3 contaminated land, but also unavailability of thorough data on B3 waste and on B3 waste producer that both of them were used for monitoring basis;
  2. Organizational support and resource aspects provided no guarantee that B3 waste management was fully monitored and B3 waste contaminated land was properly restored. One of aspects was lacking and less integrated information system to support any activities related to B3 waste management monitoring and B3 waste contaminated land restoration;
  3. Execution aspects of B3 waste management monitoring and B3 waste contaminated land restoration were inadequate such as, some substantial waste management activities by all B3 waste producers, the ones that had no license in particular, were not fully monitored;
  4. In relation to global COVID-19 Pandemic in 2020, BPK found weaknesses in monitoring of certain B3 infectious waste management to handle COVID-19. Some of the weaknesses were the monitoring of infectious B3 waste management was conducted neither in referral hospitals nor in self-quarantine clinics and the valid data of B3 infectious waste generation in relation to COVID-19 handling was unavailable. In addition, close coordination among Environment and Forestry Ministry, Health Ministry, and regional governments needed improvement.

Isma Yatun advises Environment and Forestry Ministry to immediately respond and handle these weaknesses for improvement, preventing them to affect effectiveness of B3 waste management monitoring and B3 waste contaminated land restoration programs. If no immediate actions taken to fix them, subsequently, these problems will be reason that set targets for improving environmental quality may not be well attained and fully achieved.

Improving environmental quality is one of national development targets set in National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) of 2015-2019. Selecting this national target, improving environmental quality becomes Environment and Forestry Ministry’s program carried out in set targets such as, having public health improved, having environmental quality enhanced, as well as having risks due to B3 waste reduced. Not only is improving environmental quality set in RPJMN of 2015-2019, but it is also extended into RPJMN of 2020-2024 as one of national development agendas to handle arising issues related to as well as to reduce B3 waste. The agenda is carried out by reducing amount of B3 waste and promoting integrated B3 waste management through waste facilities construction and development for both B3 waste and medical waste.

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