Korea will embark on a 10-billion-won ($9.2 million) project to clean a polluted river in Jakarta, the Ministry of Environment said Monday.

The project calls for the decontamination of a 300-meter section of the Ciliwung River, construction of a sewage treatment facility and ecological restoration development of river banks by 2015. Ciliwung, like the Han River of Seoul, runs right through the Indonesian capital.

Eighty percent of the 10 billion won project fund is to come from Korea, including 6 billion won of official development aid.

“The project, if successfully completed, would lead to a series of projects to restore 13 other rivers in Indonesia, worth nearly 10 trillion won in total,” the Korean ministry said in a press statement.

(milaya@heraldcorp.com)