Indonesia Provides Grants for Clean Water and Waste Management

The Indonesia Government has allocated Rp231.05bn ($27m) in foreign grants to 40 local administrations for clean water and waste management programmes.

The government has provided $22m for clean water management programmes in 35 regions and $4.5m for waste management programmes in five regions between June 2010 and March 2011.

The Indonesian Government will also receive grants from the Australian Government through AusAID, reports the Jakarta Post.

The clean water programmes are expected to benefit 78,400 households, while the waste management programmes are set to benefit 4,600 households.

According to Indonesia’s Public Works Ministry, about 49,259 households benefited from a clean water management programme and 2,600 from a waste management programme in 2010.