Abstract:
The Stockholm Convention aims to protect human health and environment from Persistent organic
pollutants (POPs). As a country has ratified the Stockholm Convention, Indonesia has obligation to
conduct activities with the final goal of reducing and the phase out of POPs. POPs are !2.!lm!lilo
comoounds that are resistant to environmental degradation through chemical. biolooical. and ohotolvtic
processes. Because of this, they have been observed to persist in the environment, to be capable of
long-range transport, bioaccumulate in human and animal tissue, bioaccumulate in food chains, and to
have potential significant impacts on human health and the environment. Persistent Organic Pollutants
(POPs) become one of the major problems for the environment in the last years. Their properties that
can resist in the atmosphere for several years and easy moving over the long area, make this problem
become mora serious. Identification of Contaminated site and remediation in an environmentally sound
manner, but recently remediation has not been perfomed. In Indonesia, Research bioramediation of
organic pollutants have been carried out by researchers at universities and research institutes both
LIPI, Pusarpedal, BPPT and other research institutions. Bioramediation Indonesian Forum has been
established and its action immediately realized in field applications
