National Sanitation Development

Jakarta, 27/8/14. Plh. Head of Bappeda of East Kalimantan Province, Ir. H. Nazrin, M.Si together with Bappeda of West Sumatra Province signed an agreement ANCOL on Based Total Sanitation The Community (STBM) was witnessed by the Director General of Regional Government, Mr. Tarmidzi Ismail and Acting Director General of PP and PL, Dr. H.M. Fajr., MPPM at the STBM National Coordination Meeting, at the Sahid Sudirman Hotel, Jakarta, attended by approximately 70 participants from provinces throughout Indonesia and from the Ministry of Home Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia.

In accordance with the National Medium Term Development Plan (RPJMN) of the Republic of Indonesia for 2015 – 2019, the government is determined to respond to universal sanitation access (100%) by 2014. This target is 2 years faster than the world target in 2014 as proclaimed by the UN sanitation technical team for the development of the 2005 Post-Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Sanitization.

STBM has been established as a national sanitation development approach since 2008 and is expected to make a real contribution to efforts to achieve the 2019 target. The national socio-economic survey (SUSENAS) shows that Indonesia's sanitation access achievement was 59.71% (urban 75% and rural 44%) in 2013, meaning there are still 40%, 29% or 100 million Indonesians who must have access to sanitation by the end of 2019.
As of the first quarter of 2014 STBM was implemented in 17,057 areas and the target of 20,000 units by the end of 2014 can be fulfilled with the hope of support from local governments, elements of society and the private business world as well as BUMN / BUMD.

Purpose
1. Strengthen the commitment of various stakeholders, especially the Provincial and District/City Governments as well as across Ministries.
2. Support synergy efforts between sanitation programs across ministries and strengthen sanitation components in multi-sector programs.

Implementation of STBN Coordination Meeting

Held from 3 – 5 September 2014 at the Discovery Ancol Hotel, Jakarta, which was attended and opened by the Minister of Health of the Republic of Indonesia and the Director of the Minister of National Development Planning / BAPPENAS.

Results of the STBM National Coordination Meeting

1. Understanding the STBM policy in supporting the achievement of the target of universal access to sanitation and the realization of the commitment of the Regional Government and across Ministries to realize the achievement of the target of universal access in the field of sanitation in 2019;

2. Realization of STBM best practices in the regions and encouraging the adoption of these best practices in other regions through sanitation programs supported by various ministries;

3. Identification of strategic inputs to strengthen STBM implementation in the 2015 - 2019 RPJMN through changes to STBM strategic issues;

4. Optimizing STBM's contribution towards achieving Universal Access to Sanitation in Indonesia in 2019, such as : a). Institutional strengthening includes mobilization of sub-district and village institutions, implementation of village laws, development of sanitation human resources; b). Financing includes, sanitation financing components, increasing APBD for sanitation, CSR advocacy, access to microfinance; c). The functions of cross-sectoral programs include, STBM as a strategic variety of sanitation development to change community behavior, integration of STBM in improving school nutrition and sanitation; b). Methodology development including, application and learning between regions, use of communication and behavior change, development of STBM entrepreneurship, development of STBM TTG and standardization and national access;

5. At the end of the National Coordination Meeting, the ANCOL agreement was signed, where the East Kalimantan Province Bappeda and West Sumatra Bappeda were witnessed by the Director General of Regional Government (Mr. Tarmidzi Ismail) and the Acting Director General of PP and PL (Mr. Dr. H.M. Subuh, MPPM).
(Public Relations of Bappeda of East Kalimantan Province/Sukandar, S.Sos)