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<\/p>\nJakarta- Greenpeace today called on the government of Indonesia to take immediate action to curb pollution of freshwater sources at the launch of a public campaign to protect the Citarum River. The launch of the Greenpeace Toxic Free Water project entitled \u201cCitarum Nadi Ku, Mari Rebut Kembali\u201d (Let\u2019s Take Back Our Citarum), coincided with the release of a public opinion poll conducted by LP3ES that estimates that 81% of people in and around Bandung agree that industries should stop polluting Western Java\u2019s most important freshwater source.<\/p>\n
As part of the launch, activists from Greenpeace and PKK DAS Citarum (Citarum Community Activists) unfurled a giant banner with a \u201c?\u201d.\u00a0 Community members also collected river water in a glass jar, as a symbol that Indonesia\u2019s people don\u2019t know what toxic poisons are killing their beloved river.<\/p>\n
\u201cGreenpeace believes that the vision of a clean Citarum is achievable.\u00a0 We will work together with all stakeholders of this river to take back the Citarum.\u00a0 Poll results confirm that communities know that industrial pollution is poisoning their river, and has very dangerous impacts on their health, environment and livelihoods.\u00a0 With this project we hope to inspire people and catalyze a collective effort to enact solutions to save the Citarum,\u201d said Ahmad Ashov Birry, Campaigner, Greenpeace Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIssues of land degradation, erosion, sedimentation, flood, drought and industrial pollution are consequences of massive land use change in Citarum\u2019s basin for the sake of industrial corporations.\u00a0 Therefore PKK recommends spatial policy reform, reconstruction of green areas around Citarum basin, rehabilitation of critical land in the upstream, implementation of clean production and strict law enforcement,\u201d said Deni Riswandini from PKK DAS Citarum.<\/p>\n
The Citarum river provides freshwater for most of West Java Province and also supplies 80 percent of Jakarta (1).\u00a0 However, the river is recognized as one of the dirtiest in the world (2)\u00a0 Overuse and increasing industrial pollution over the last twenty years has severely damaged the river.\u00a0 Citarum supports 20 percent of Indonesia\u2019s industrial output (3) with thousands of factories on its banks and in its basin, which pump their toxic effluents into the river.\u00a0 More visible pollution includes plastic rubbish and domestic and municipal waste such as raw sewage.<\/p>\n
Poll results revealed by Greenpeace and LP3ES reinforce \u2018common knowledge\u2019 that industrial waste is polluting Citarum. 79.8% public of DAS Citarum believe that the river is polluted by industrial waste.\u00a0 92.3% of those polled know that industrial waste pollution have very dangerous impacts on\u00a0 the environment and livelihoods. 82.5% agree that industry should be responsible for their pollution; and 81% agree that industry should stop releasing their waste to the river.\u00a0 Meanwhile, 80.3% of those polled agree that the government should institute stronger regulations to prevent industry from polluting the river and 68.3% agree that the public should have easy to access information regarding toxic wastes produced by industries.<\/p>\n
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Greenpeace called on the government of Indonesia to take immediate action to curb pollution of freshwater sources at the launch of a public campaign to protect the Citarum River. The launch of the Greenpeace Toxic Free Water project entitled \u201cCitarum Nadi Ku, Mari Rebut Kembali\u201d (Let\u2019s Take Back Our Citarum), coincided with the release of a public opinion poll conducted by LP3ES that estimates that 81% of people in and around Bandung agree that industries should stop polluting Western Java\u2019s most important freshwater source.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolling was conducted in April 2011 amongst 400 respondents from 20 villages along the Citarum watershed, from upstream to downstream,\u201d said Kurniawan Zein from LP3ES.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must work together to confront and stop massive pollution in order to restore Citarum River.\u00a0 Greenpeace is calling on industries to immediately stop polluting the river with chemical waste.\u00a0 We are calling on the government to enforce stricter monitoring and take firm action against polluters and to give public information on toxic chemicals that pollute the river on which millions of Indonesians depend,\u201d concluded Ashov.<\/p>\n
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behaviour, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace.<\/p>\n
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