is it true the capital of Indonesia has a bay full of garbage?

Approximately 30 tons of garbage piled up on an area of ​​1,000 square meters in the bay of Jakarta. The sea of ​​garbage is even like forming the land in the mangrove forest area of ​​Ecomarine Tourism Mangrove in Muara Angke, North Jakarta. Vice Governor of DKI Jakarta Sandiaga Uno ordered North Jakarta Mayor Husein Murad to resolve this Jakarta Bay garbage problem. Sandi said, waste management in this area must be done specifically because there is conservation of mangrove forest "Therefore, there is a mangrove forest there, can be done again in the future, how can bring heavy equipment to it, because there is garbage when there is garbage activity there, so that later let us coordinate," said Sandiaga in East Jakarta, Saturday, March 17, 2018. This Gerindra politician mentions, the buildup of Jakarta Bay waste has occurred since 2014, but he did not want to Applied the previous government. He believes the government before and has been working hard to solve this garbage. "It's reported from the Jakarta Bay garbage manager there from 2014, but you are sure that the government has been paying attention, but it has not been executed yet, so we are not going out, we just do it right now," he explained. These garbage out of the area around Jakarta, for that he will work together with the areas around Jakarta to solve problems from upstream to downstream. "Cooperation and cooperation with inter-provinces no matter where garbage from anywhere between us so we work together in the upstream and downstream," he said. Sandiaga also hopes, citizens and care for the environment because a lot of garbage found is household and plastic waste. And he talks rubbish is not a disgusting thing but it can be worth the economy. "Many may be valuable, and we expect people to care about the environment," Sandiaga said. Jakarta Provincial Government also mobilized 400 personnel to transport the garbage pile in Empang Muara Angke Block, Penjaringan, North Jakarta. The joint team came from several working units, namely the Sub-dept. Of Environment (LH) of Thousand Islands, North Jakarta LH Sub-Agency (Jakut), UPK Air Body, and PPSU from various districts in North Jakarta. According to the Mayor of North Jakarta, Husein Murad, a pile of garbage comes from the sea. The objects are driven to the mainland due to the rob phenomenon, and trapped in the Empang Muara Angke Block. "The garbage is trapped from the tide in February," said Husein, Sunday (18/3/2018). He also admitted that a small portion of the garbage is piled up from 2014. This is in accordance with the statement of Vice Governor of DKI Jakarta, Sandiaga Uno. The waste cleaning activity from Empang Muara Angke Block is under the coordination of Sub-Dept. of Thousand Islands and the coast of North Jakarta. Trash is lifted with heavy amphibie fiber. Different on Saturday 17 March, 19 tons of waste transported manually. Hussein also believes transportation by using heavy equipment will be faster. Work time can be shortened from the original target of a week to a few days. Garbage that can not decompose brought to Bantar Gebang. While the decomposable waste will be used as a medium of planting 10 thousand mangrove trees. "Garbage is partly to be disposed of, especially plastic debris, but some of which have been decomposed that is not plastic waste is useful to be a community media to plant mangroves," said Husein. Cleaning up garbage carried by wind and rob flood is expected to take one week. Once clean, this area will be utilized for mangrove forest. "Initially this area is not like this, this garbage is so much because it was carried by a flood of rob and the west wind.Initially our officers wanted to clean up these garbage, but our ships can not lean because of the west wind.After this is all clean, we will plant mangrove will be here, "said Kasudin LH Thousand Islands Yusen Hardiman.