Indonesia targets full access to clean water by 2019

Indonesia has set target to secure access to clean water for all people across the country by 2019 and planned to provide drinkable water directly from the faucets in large cities, a senior official said here Thursday.

Head of an agency to support development in state-run drinking water firm, BPSPAM, Tamin Zakaria Amin, said that to comply with the target, government would push drinking water firms operating in the region to assure improvement of water reservoirs and to prevent it from emptiness. "So that people can access it 24 hours a day,"he said.

Besides, the agency would source new technologies to look for new water resources in a bid to expand and process water reservoirs, maintain and extend water pipelines across the country.

Amin said that it may take some 274.8 trillion rupiah (about 22. 8 billion U.S. dollars) to finance related projects.

As of now, the ratio to access clean water in Indonesia has reached 60 percent.