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JAKARTA, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Activists have warned that air pollution in Indonesian cities has reached alarming levels, a local media reported here Wednesday.
They said that the case was mainly caused by poor transportation management.
A group of activists and government officials from the State Ministry for the Environment and the Transportation Ministry established a Forum for Indonesian Clean Air as part of its mission to push for sustainable transportation management to minimize air pollution.
"The air quality has frequently been dangerously unhealthy. The country needs extra efforts to clean the air through sustainable transport management," Ahmad Safruddin, who initiated the forum quoted by the Jakarta Post as saying.
He said that poor quality of fuels, gas emissions and poor law enforcement were exacerbating the country's transport system problems.
Ahmad added that all air pollutant parameters exceeded tolerable limits set by environmental authorities.
Motor vehicles are a major source of air pollutants in Indonesia's major cities.
Deputy assistant for pollution emissions control at the State Ministry for the Environment, Ade Palguna, concurred and said air pollution in big cities had reached critical levels.
He said his office also faced difficulties with a limited number of air quality monitoring devices outside the big cities.
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