Permissionto Pollute
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Indonesia is to host an international conference on dangerous waste. But domestically the government has been sloppy managing waste.
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TWO years ago, on the morning of Monday, June 13, Sempu village, in Pasir Gembong, Bekasi, was visited by an unforgettable smell. The stinging odor was so oppressive that one of the villagers, Budi Susanto, still remembers it clearly. “I was dizzy, my stomach was heaving, and my throat was dry,” he recalls. When he awoke, Budi was already at the hospital with 90 of his neighbors, including his 21-year-old child, Nur Afifah.
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