JAKARTA. The requirement for project developers to carry out an Environmental Impact Analysis (Amdal) hinders investment, because developers have to spend months to arrange required documents, according to Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama.
“How can we create an easy atmosphere of doing business if arranging Amdal document takes months to complete,” he said, adding that he had proposed to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo to scrap the Amdal requirement for the development of certain projects.
The Jakarta’s one-stop integrated service (PTSP) could not immediately issue project permits, because of the difficulty to arrange Amdal documents, the governor said on Friday.
He suggested that in areas for which Amdal documents already existed, new developers did not need to arrange for another Amdal document for certain projects. “If a building already acquired the Amdal document, why should we need another Amdal document for the construction of other buildings in the nearby area?” Ahok asked.
According to a government regulation issued in 2014 on environment permits, regions that already had a Spatial Details Plan (RDTR) were exempted from the requirement to obtain Amdal documents, Ahok said.
But the regulation could not be enforced because the Forestry and Environment Minister had not issued a ministerial regulation to support the government regulation. “That is what I reported to the president,” he said as reported by kompas.com.
He stressed that Jakarta already had the RDTR and zoning bylaws issued in 2014 that already regulated the use of space in the capital area.
Instead of an Amdal document, he proposed the issuance of an environmental monitoring and management efforts (UKL-UPL) document, the arrangement of which requires less time.
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