ABSTRACT
The Ministry of Population and Environment had limited resources to regulate industrial pollution, and governors of provinces, whose principal concern was to increase employment and income by attracting investment, felt little incentive to do so. The mapping from regulations to colours was a conservative one: a polluter had to comply with all provisions in the regulations to receive a blue or higher rating. By helping communities identify the main sources of the most damaging pollutants, the rating system would help them apply pressure where it really counted. The most available information indicates that facilities participating in PROPER are continuing to improve their performance. Although the domestic 'green consumer' movement was small and largely limited to the well-educated, suburban elite in Jakarta and other cities, Indonesian companies in some sectors, notably wood products, were facing increasing pressure from consumers, environmental groups and in some cases legislators in export markets.
