Indonesia boosts sanitation facilities

JAKARTA, May 29 (Xinhua) — The Indonesian Public Work Ministry has started projects of building sanitation infrastructure in some parts of the country as an effort to boost the level of sanitation in Indonesia, senior official of the ministry said here on Tuesday.

The projects included the waste water processing facilities, toilets and other infrastructures linked to sanitation, said Budiyuwino, director general at the ministry said.

He said that the government aimed at boosting the rank of Indonesia’s sanitation level in the region as it is now among the lowest.

“The level of sanitation in Indonesia now is still the third among the lowest in the Southeast Asia,” he sad at the Public Work Ministry here.

The projects so far would be conducted in five out of 33 provinces in the country, then it would be expanded to Central Java, East Java, Yogyakarta provinces and North Sulawesi and South Sulawesi provinces in eastern parts of the country, the director said.

Over 60 million funds would be disbursed to the five provinces to support the projects, he said.

Indonesian Vice President Boediono has said that the government aimed at improving Indonesian human development index through development in health and education sectors.

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