TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta's Sanitation Agency has added 352 new garbage trucks to help reduce the accumulation of trashes across the capital. "The trucks will be added to our fleet in phases - the first of which will coincide with the end of September, wherein 50 buses will be introduced," said the Deputy Head of Jakarta's Sanitation Agency, Ali Maulana Hakim, at the City Hall in Central Jakarta on Monday, September 7, 2015.

According to Ali, the new trucks will come in a variety of sizes - and he hopes that all 352 trucks could arrive and be up and running by the end of the year.

"We need these trucks to replace aging and broken trucks in our fleet - which has hampered our best efforts to stop trashes from accumulation across the capital," said Ali, who added that the initiative was carried out under the instruction of Jakarta Governor Basuk Tjahaja Purnama, who has ordered the Agency from renting trucks to meet its' demand.

"The governor has asked us to stop renting - so the arrival of these trucks would certainly help our operations," said Ali, who added that the trucks will be deployed within the city's residential areas.

"The removal of garbage in industrial and commercial zones is the responsibility of the estates' owners," said Ali, who finished that the trucks will be GPS-traced to increase the ease to monitor the movements of each unit.

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