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51214
Wed, 03/18/2009 - 16:58
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SOME 100 MILLION INDONESIANS LACK ACCESS TO BASIC SANITATION
Jakarta, March 18 (ANTARA) - Around 100 million Indonesians living in roughly 30,000 villages have difficulty in getting access to basic sanitation facilities, according to a discussion in a workshop here on Wednesday.
So, it was not a surprise if about 70 million people in Indonesia defecated in open places such as rivers, farming fields, and plantation areas, said a report discussed in an International Workshop on Sanitation: Domestic Wastewater".
The workshop was attended by representatives from the National Development Plan Agency (Bappenas), universities, NGOs and several donors such as the European Union, Borda, and Oxfam.
Bappenas' Housing and Settlement Director Budi Hidayat said there were a lot of problems facing efforts to improve the Indonesian water and sanitation profile.
Among the problems were limited budget, and lacks of technology, institutional preparedness, and the people's awareness, he said.
To overcome the problems, the government has implemented various programs including the Water Supply and Sanitation for Low Income Communities (WSLIC), Comprehensive-Kampong Improvement Programme (C-KIP),and the Public Sanitation Program (Sanimas).
"Those programs are aimed at improving the levels of health, productivity and life's quality by involving the people's participation," he said.
Meanwhile, Eddy Soedjono from the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) said in order to measure the effectiveness of the program application, the government carried out a study called DIM-SUM (Innovative Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Water in Developing Countries).
More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation.
Increasing access to water and sanitation is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There are eight goals, and 21 targets, covering the key factors that contribute to well-being,
such as nutrition, health and education.
The MDGs include a target to halve the fraction of the world's population without access to water and sanitation by 2015.***
So, it was not a surprise if about 70 million people in Indonesia defecated in open places such as rivers, farming fields, and plantation areas, said a report discussed in an International Workshop on Sanitation: Domestic Wastewater".
The workshop was attended by representatives from the National Development Plan Agency (Bappenas), universities, NGOs and several donors such as the European Union, Borda, and Oxfam.
Bappenas' Housing and Settlement Director Budi Hidayat said there were a lot of problems facing efforts to improve the Indonesian water and sanitation profile.
Among the problems were limited budget, and lacks of technology, institutional preparedness, and the people's awareness, he said.
To overcome the problems, the government has implemented various programs including the Water Supply and Sanitation for Low Income Communities (WSLIC), Comprehensive-Kampong Improvement Programme (C-KIP),and the Public Sanitation Program (Sanimas).
"Those programs are aimed at improving the levels of health, productivity and life's quality by involving the people's participation," he said.
Meanwhile, Eddy Soedjono from the Surabaya Institute of Technology (ITS) said in order to measure the effectiveness of the program application, the government carried out a study called DIM-SUM (Innovative Decision Making for Sustainable Management of Water in Developing Countries).
More than 1.1 billion people lack access to safe water, and 2.6 billion lack access to basic sanitation.
Increasing access to water and sanitation is one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). There are eight goals, and 21 targets, covering the key factors that contribute to well-being,
such as nutrition, health and education.
The MDGs include a target to halve the fraction of the world's population without access to water and sanitation by 2015.***
