Institusion
Universitas Atma Jaya Yogyakarta
Author
Febriani, Yeni
Subject
Pertanahan, Pembangunan dan Lingkungan Hidup
Datestamp
2013-05-06 12:10:53
Abstract :
Potential of Natural Resources and Human Resources in Batam City is very good, coupled with
the support of qualified technology experts and very helpful. It makes Batam City as one city of
an industrial center forward. Establishment of modern industries, particularly electronic
industries has increased the economy of Batam City. However, besides the development of
electronic industries, sometimes Batam City faced the problem of the hazardous and toxic waste
of electronic industries which causes environmental pollution. In effort to control the pollution,
Batam City require management of the hazardous wastes of electronic industries and step to
handled the constraints. From these problems, the empirical research conducted by gathering
information through literature study and interviews with respondents and related resource. Based
on research conducted in Batam City, the management of hazardous wastes of electronic
industries has been running according to the existing provisions, both in terms of licensing and
management processes. But, the supervision of BAPEDAL is not maximized. There are still the
hazardous wastes pollution in a region with unknown cause and unknown culprit. The
supervision of BAPEDAL is not maximized because there are some constraints, such as report
environmental documents are not reported to BAPEDAL every 6 months, testing laboratory of
hazardous wastes has not been certified, special transportation of BAPEDAL for supervising the
management of hazardous wastes is not yet available, etc. Therefore, to handle this problems,
BAPEDAL should be apply more intensive the supervision and increase the firmness of the
environmental document reporting activities. Beside it, awareness of each actors to manage the
hazardous wastes need to be increased.