Vice President Boediono warned local governments (district government) and the city-backed central government in order to keep the water clean and sanitary waste water management in order to provide basic community facilities.

Vice President Boediono

Vice President Boediono warned local governments (district government) and the city-backed central government in order to keep the water clean and sanitary waste water management in order to provide basic community facilities.

"But the greatest responsibility for the provision and management of water and wastewater in the hands of the district and the city," the vice president said at the opening of Indonesia Water and Wastewater Expo and Forum (WWEF) 2013 in Jakarta, on Tuesday.

Present at the event included Minister of Public Works Djoko Kirmanto, Finance Minister Agus Martowardojo, and Vice Governor of Jakarta Basuki T. Purnama.

The Vice President said the system of local governance should include the management of water resources as well as possible.

The Vice President requested that the government is willing to cooperate with the central government in terms of basic needs that.

Boediono sure synergistic cooperation and open with each other where each one will have a double portion of the intended benefits to the community.

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), he added, is Indonesia's commitment to the country and to the world that Indonesia is able to raise the dignity of human life.

In essence, water needs are the main target.

It is asserted that in order to equally reinforce commitment to meet the needs of water and sanitation, the office of Vice President will accommodate inputs resulting in a symposium that was held and will implement coordination among ministers authorities and relevant local governments involved.

Subject to lack of funds, the Vice understand that if you rely on the state budget, the development in the area would be difficult to walk.

Therefore, the Vice President asked the head of the region to be creative in a relationship with a third party in the scheme of public private partnership (PPP).

Boediono attention on the health of the Regional Water Company (PDAM) is more dominant in this state are less healthy and sick than healthy.

In his notes, of the 335 firms, 144 healthy while 105 less healthy and 86 ill.

Chairman of the Association of Water Companies Indonesia (PERPAMSI) Syaiful convey of 410 Regional Water Company (PDAM) new flood clean drinking water to urban and rural areas respectively approximately 41.88 percent and 13.9 percent, so that a whole new reached 27 percent.

While the achievements of the proportion of the population access to drinking water protected (secure access) nationally to 2011 amounted to 55.04 percent.

"There are still far from the target of the MDGs in 2015 amounted to 68.87 percent," said Syaiful.