| Summary: | As a form of compliance with the Kyoto Protocol and the awareness of climate
change issues, Indonesian Government through Pontianak Municipality has built
Landfill Gas Project under CDM Scenario in cooperation with Private Sector.
The Project, built in 2007 aims to reduce methane emission as well as achieve
emission reduction revenue under a carbon trade scheme to improve Pontianak
Solid Waste Management and Community Development in the surrounding area.
Unfortunately, the project, which was showcased to other cities in Indonesia as an
innovative way in development of Municipal Solid Waste Management, has not
performed as planned. The aims of this inquiry are to identify the challenges of
conducting CDM project under the Kyoto Protocol through a partnership
agreement between Public and private, especially when it is connected to some
aspects such as financial, technological, and institutional/regulation. The result is
expected to be able to suggest a recommendation for related stakeholder
especially public entity to generate the better planning or policy for the
improvement of environmental-based program.
This research is exploratory, conducted through finding data and information
related to the Batulayang project from concerned stakeholders to lead to some
crucial information, documents, reports, policies and any related data, desk
research is done to obtain some supporting information, as well as the direct
investigation on the project site. Further, it is analyzed qualitatively by
triangulating all data resources. The investigation showed that the obvious
problem of the project related to the technological factor is because of the problem
of the leachate management system. It has been related to the limited resources of
Pontianak Municipality as well as the lack of financial support. Regarding the
institution factors, the projects was once supported by the central government at
the construction phase no longer obtain that support. The support is not
continually devoted to the project operation. There is no financial assistance for
that project. The projects has not been covered by the so-called a taskforce or
joint committee consists of some related stakeholders in both the national and
Pontianak level. Moreover, the projects proponents have not formed the joint
committee, for them to discuss the project implementation. On the other hand,
there has not been communication between them.
The lack of adequate regulation covering the Batulayang project is the center of
those aspects. The absence of specific national program that endorses the
implementation of Batulayang Project makes the project appears as the abandoned
project. Soon after it was introduced in the ceremonial event, the project, which
essentially is the public project, has been left. With regard to the position of waste
sector, which contributes 11 % of the total GHG emission of Indonesia, the crucial
factor mentioned above needs to be strongly emphasized.
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