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Govt, city claim much being done about air pollution
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Govt, city claim much being done about air pollution
Sausan AtikaThe Jakarta Post
Jakarta / Sat, July 6 2019 / 12:19 am
Shades of grey: A girl looks at the National Monument (Monas) as smog covers Jakarta on Thursday. Residents have filed a civil lawsuit and demanded the administration step up efforts to prevent air pollution from getting worse.(Reuters/Willy Kurniawan)
The central government and the Jakarta administration have claimed that measures are being taken regarding air pollution, as they adopt a defensive posture in response to a civil lawsuit filed by a group of fed-up residents. The authorities brushed off the notion that they had a hands-off approach to declining air quality.
The Environment and Forestry Ministry’s pollution and environmental damage control director general, Karliansyah, said the ministry welcomed the lawsuit, as it indicated that people were aware of their rights.
“If citizens are aware of their rights, we hope it will not be limited to air pollution but [extend to] other issues, like water and waste. We can build a clean country together,” he said on Friday at a press conference at the ministry in response to the lawsuit.
In a movement named Tim Advokasi Ibukota (Jakarta Advocacy Team), 31 plaintiffs filed a historic civil lawsuit with the Central Jakarta District Court on Thursday, bringing their protests over “sickening” air pollution to the legal sphere in a bid to force the authorities to do something. It was addressed to the President, the environment and forestry minister, the health minister, the home minister and the governors of Jakarta, Banten and West Java.
The central government had encouraged regional governments to improve public transportation, increase the number of urban parks, encourage car-free days, establish park-and-ride facilities and improve sidewalks, Karliansyah said.
The government is currently revising several regulations, including the 1999 government