The Conference of the Parties of the Basel Convention in 1995 selected Indonesia to host one of the Basel Convention Regional Centres. Subsequently, a Framework Agreement was signed in 2004 to this effect. The same Centre was endorsed by the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention in 2013 as a Stockholm Convention Regional Centre for an initial 2 years, extended for another 4 years by COP.7.

Expertise of the centre includes industrial waste, particularly hazardous waste management; e-waste inventory; inventory of POPs and NIP updating; conducting national and regional training and awareness-raising workshops on issues relating to the Basel Convention, Rotterdam Convention, Stockholm Convention and Minamata Convention. Some of the notable project/activities undertaken by the centre are listed below:

Activities related to the Stockholm including Rotterdam Conventions

• Review and update of the NIP of Indonesia
• Global workshop on Updating NIPs, 8-10 December 2015, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Global workshop to promote the use of guidance materials and knowledge sharing among developing countries on industrial POPs (PBDEs, PFOS ad HBCD) under the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, 22-24 Nov 2016, Jakarta, Indonesia

Activities related to the Basel Convention

• A Study on E-waste Management in ASEAN, 2016
• Regional Training Workshop on Repair, Refurbishment, Reconditioning of Used EEE and Recycling and Final Disposal of E-Waste, 19-21 Apr 2011, Bangkok, Thailand
• E-waste Training Workshop for Asia and the Pacific, 10-14 Aug 2009, Hanoi, Vietnam.
• Regional Workshop for the Environmentally Sound Management of e-Wastes, 13-15 Mar 2007, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
• Development of e-waste data base in cooperation with UNEP/SBC.
• Development of Technical Guidelines on e-waste Inventory and 3 R
• Workshops of Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes

Activities related to Minamata Convention

• Workshop on Technology Transfer to Mercury-Free Gold Recovery, Pacitan Regency, Indonesia, 21 July 2016.

Activities related to asbestos

• Pilot project on the environmentally sound management of asbestos wastes within Indonesia (Jan 2010 – Aug 2011)
• Regional Workshop for the Environmentally Sound Management of Asbestos Containing Materials, 19 Dec 2006, Jakarta.
• Regional Training Workshop on ESM of Asbestos Wastes, 19-21 Oct 2010, Jakarta
• Inter-agency Workshop on the Sound Management of Industrial Chemicals, with Special Emphasis on Asbestos, for the Asia-Pacific Region, 29 Sept–1 Oct 2014

At present BCRC-SCRC Indonesia is currently undertaking the following projects:

• Mercury emissions from the coal-fired power sector in Indonesia (Jan-Dec 2017)
• Global Monitoring Plan on POPs in Indonesia (2017-2020)

Parties served: Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.

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