Jakarta –
Last night’s first presidential candidate debate discussed the problem of air pollution in Jakarta. Handling air pollution in Jakarta was highlighted by presidential candidate number 2 Prabowo Subianto when given the opportunity to ask presidential candidate number 1 Anies Baswedan.
Initially, Prabowo asked about the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government’s budget when Anies was still Governor of DKI, amounting to IDR 80 trillion. However, DKI often receives the highest pollution index in the world.
“How about a budget of IDR 80 trillion, Mr Anies, as governor you cannot do anything meaningful to reduce pollution,” said Prabowo in the First 2024 Presidential Candidate Debate at the KPU, Central Jakarta, Tuesday (12/12/2023).
Anies also answered by saying Prabowo’s question was inaccurate. Anies then explained first by giving the example of the COVID-19 problem.
“Pak Prabowo, thank you for the good question, but it’s not accurate, I’ll explain, sir. When one area says where we don’t have COVID, where we have a lot of COVID, then in those who don’t have COVID we ask, ‘why is there no COVID? ‘, we don’t have testing equipment, sir, because we don’t have testing equipment, there is no COVID. Those who have testing equipment, there is COVID.
According to Anies, pollution in Jakarta is inconsistent. Anies said that the wind does not have an ID card and pollution follows the direction of the wind.
“So, what happens? In Jakarta we installed air pollution monitoring equipment. If the air pollution problem originates from within the city of Jakarta then today, tomorrow, next week it will consistently continue to be dirty, but what happens? There are days when we “We are clean, there are days when we are dirty. There are times when Sunday mornings in Jagakarsa are very dirty, what happens? Air pollution doesn’t have an ID card, wind doesn’t have an ID card,” said Anies in response to Prabowo.
“The wind moves from there to here. When pollutants that emerge from steam power plants flow towards Jakarta then Jakarta has an indicator, because of that Jakarta says there is air pollution. When the wind moves towards Lampung, towards Sumatra, towards the Java Sea, “There were no monitoring devices there so it didn’t appear, and Jakarta at that time was clean,” he added.
Prabowo also responded. He believes that Anies should not blame the wind. Prabowo reiterated his question regarding handling Jakarta’s air pollution with a budget of that size.
“Yes, it’s difficult if we blame the wind where it comes from. So I asked, with such a large budget (Rp. 58 trillion), what steps can be taken to actually reduce pollution in 5 years, where many Jakartans suffer from respiratory illnesses ,” said Prabowo.
Prabowo then said that if you blame the wind, there is no need for a government to handle this problem.
“So I think it’s easy to blame the wind, rain and so on, maybe there’s no need for a government then,” he continued.
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2023-12-13 00:48:49
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