Have you ever wondered how much garbage this city of more than 11 million residents produces daily? According to Eko Bharuna, who is chief of the Jakarta office that deals with the capital’s waste, the answer is an average of more than 29,000 cubic meters, or enough to bury a football field under five meters of trash.
Just to transport the trash from neighborhood collection centers to Jakarta’s sprawling dump at Bantar Gebang in Bekasi requires close to 1,000 trucks, Eko said. The city administration owns 841 trucks while another 100 are rented from private companies.
“Each truck has a capacity of 15 cubic meters per load and averages one and a half trips a day,” Eko said.
A quick computation shows that accounts for only a little more than 21,000 cubic meters of waste taken to the dump each day, leaving about 8,000 cubic meters, or more than a quarter of the total, in the capital. Some 1,400 cubic meters of the uncollected garbage is estimated to find its way into the city’s 13 rivers, Eko said.
Ignorance of good waste management is one of the main reasons for annual floods which routinely swamp areas of the city, especially in northern Jakarta where garbage-choked rivers join the sea.
Most residents seem content to view waste management as the responsibility of others, complaining about inappropriate local government programs and incompetent local administration without questioning what changes they can effect themselves.
But the green kampong of Banjarsari in South Jakarta is one neighborhood making an effort to manage its garbage and reduce environmental problems.
Heading south from Blok M to traffic-heavy Jalan Fatmawati, one can find the agro-tourist destination just before the intersection of the TB Simatupang outer ring road.
Banjarsari is defined as a neighborhood unit, with a narrow street through it that allows only one car to pass at a time. The neighborhood comes under the West Cilandak subdistrict.
The best time to visit Banjarsari is in the late afternoon, when the sting has gone from the sun and a leisurely stroll along the plant-lined paving stones helps one forget that the area is part of a crowded, polluted metropolis.
Despite the neighborhood being densely packed with houses, potted plants, shrubs and trees at every home make it appear less stifling than other parts of Jakarta.
According to the most recent available data, 231 families with 938 members live in Banjarsari.
Noerdjaja, a neighborhood leader, said not a single house in Banjarsari lacks plants, and each house indeed seems to vie to display flowers and potted plants, hanging from balconies, adorning porches and lining alleyways.
Long before Jakarta began to experience some of its worst floods and the government made moves to build expensive infrastructure projects to deal with them, including the long-delayed construction of the East Flood Canal, Banjarsari residents already had a household waste management system. Residents were dividing their waste into three types, each put into trash cans of different colors. Red cans are for inorganic waste, green marks organic waste that can be processed to become compost and yellow is for liquid waste unsuitable for composting.
Although the families in Banjarsari come from a wide range of economic classes and backgrounds, as can be seen in the diverse sizes and design of the houses, all strictly adhere to the neighborhood’s 4R concept — reduce, reuse, recycle and replant.
Harini Bambang Wahono, a frail-looking woman in her 70s, has been both the brain and the engine behind the 4R concept and its implementation since she and her family moved to the area from Solo, in Central Java, in 1980.
“When I moved here, Banjarsari was still a rubber plantation,” she said.
Together with her late husband, Bambang Wahono, who was then head of a neighborhood unit, Harini started raising the awareness of her fellow residents about the importance of waste management.
Banjarsari was named by Unesco as a pilot project for community waste management in 1996, and the organization also trained Harini as the project’s instructor.
Her tireless struggle earned her the Kalapataru environmental award in 2001, which was given to her by then President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Harini has since conducted environmental workshops in 25 districts throughout Sumatra, some 30 in Java and several in Kalimantan. She is also regularly invited to give speeches on regional environmenalt issues in the Philippines and Thailand.
Another area that has followed the lead of Banjarsari is Rawajati, located in Pancoran, South Jakarta. Inspired by the example of Banjarsari, the neighborhood has transformed itself from a barren kampong to one rich in vegetation.
Almost surrounded by the waters of the Ciliwung River, Rawajati is home to 3,325 residents in 686 families.
In 2001, Niniek Nuryanto, a resident in charge of the family welfare motivation association (PKK), first heard about Banjarsari’s domestic waste management plan.
A year later, she became so interested that she sent a group of women from her local PKK to Banjarsari to study the neighborhood’s methods.
“We studied environmental issues, such as the garbage management system and greening activities,” Niniek said, adding that unlike Banjarsari, Rawajati had poor soil that didn’t lend itself to growing plants.
The PKK members, on their return from Banjarsari, immediately set to work organizing cleanliness and greening competitions between the small neighborhood associations that make up the larger area.
“Our residents’ enthusiasm was greater than we had expected,” Niniek said.
“The peak of our efforts was on Dec. 23, 2003, when a monthlong neighborhood cleanliness and greening competition made our RW [neighborhood unit] 03 a much better place to live.”
A particular innovation in Rawajati was the use of wastewater for watering plants. The residents modified open sewers and ditches to channel wastewater to plants and flower pots.
“In addition, we also set up trash cans everywhere, so everybody, at anytime, could throw their garbage into the trash cans, not into the Ciliwung River anymore,” Niniek said.
Now visitors to the area are greeted by lush greenery, flowers and birdsong, an achievement that earned the neighborhood the title of “best RW” in terms of cleanliness and environment in 2004. It topped the Jakarta governor’s list of the 2,900 RWs across the city.
In 2005, Rawajati was runner-up in a nationwide contest for the cleanest and most environmentally friendly village. The following year, it also won a Kalpataru award.
Both Rawajati and Banjarsari residents separate their waste, turning the organic matter into compost and therefore reducing the amount of garbage that has to be handled by the city, which lags behind the two neighborhoods.
“The waste management system we built is not integrated with the city administration, which does not apply a waste management system yet, so the inorganic garbage that we separate here is mixed up again with organic garbage when picked up by the city garbage trucks,” Noerdjaja said.
Just to transport the trash from neighborhood collection centers to Jakarta’s sprawling dump at Bantar Gebang in Bekasi requires close to 1,000 trucks, Eko said. The city administration owns 841 trucks while another 100 are rented from private companies.
“Each truck has a capacity of 15 cubic meters per load and averages one and a half trips a day,” Eko said.
A quick computation shows that accounts for only a little more than 21,000 cubic meters of waste taken to the dump each day, leaving about 8,000 cubic meters, or more than a quarter of the total, in the capital. Some 1,400 cubic meters of the uncollected garbage is estimated to find its way into the city’s 13 rivers, Eko said.
Ignorance of good waste management is one of the main reasons for annual floods which routinely swamp areas of the city, especially in northern Jakarta where garbage-choked rivers join the sea.
Most residents seem content to view waste management as the responsibility of others, complaining about inappropriate local government programs and incompetent local administration without questioning what changes they can effect themselves.
But the green kampong of Banjarsari in South Jakarta is one neighborhood making an effort to manage its garbage and reduce environmental problems.
Heading south from Blok M to traffic-heavy Jalan Fatmawati, one can find the agro-tourist destination just before the intersection of the TB Simatupang outer ring road.
Banjarsari is defined as a neighborhood unit, with a narrow street through it that allows only one car to pass at a time. The neighborhood comes under the West Cilandak subdistrict.
The best time to visit Banjarsari is in the late afternoon, when the sting has gone from the sun and a leisurely stroll along the plant-lined paving stones helps one forget that the area is part of a crowded, polluted metropolis.
Despite the neighborhood being densely packed with houses, potted plants, shrubs and trees at every home make it appear less stifling than other parts of Jakarta.
According to the most recent available data, 231 families with 938 members live in Banjarsari.
Noerdjaja, a neighborhood leader, said not a single house in Banjarsari lacks plants, and each house indeed seems to vie to display flowers and potted plants, hanging from balconies, adorning porches and lining alleyways.
Long before Jakarta began to experience some of its worst floods and the government made moves to build expensive infrastructure projects to deal with them, including the long-delayed construction of the East Flood Canal, Banjarsari residents already had a household waste management system. Residents were dividing their waste into three types, each put into trash cans of different colors. Red cans are for inorganic waste, green marks organic waste that can be processed to become compost and yellow is for liquid waste unsuitable for composting.
Although the families in Banjarsari come from a wide range of economic classes and backgrounds, as can be seen in the diverse sizes and design of the houses, all strictly adhere to the neighborhood’s 4R concept — reduce, reuse, recycle and replant.
Harini Bambang Wahono, a frail-looking woman in her 70s, has been both the brain and the engine behind the 4R concept and its implementation since she and her family moved to the area from Solo, in Central Java, in 1980.
“When I moved here, Banjarsari was still a rubber plantation,” she said.
Together with her late husband, Bambang Wahono, who was then head of a neighborhood unit, Harini started raising the awareness of her fellow residents about the importance of waste management.
Banjarsari was named by Unesco as a pilot project for community waste management in 1996, and the organization also trained Harini as the project’s instructor.
Her tireless struggle earned her the Kalapataru environmental award in 2001, which was given to her by then President Megawati Sukarnoputri.
Harini has since conducted environmental workshops in 25 districts throughout Sumatra, some 30 in Java and several in Kalimantan. She is also regularly invited to give speeches on regional environmenalt issues in the Philippines and Thailand.
Another area that has followed the lead of Banjarsari is Rawajati, located in Pancoran, South Jakarta. Inspired by the example of Banjarsari, the neighborhood has transformed itself from a barren kampong to one rich in vegetation.
Almost surrounded by the waters of the Ciliwung River, Rawajati is home to 3,325 residents in 686 families.
In 2001, Niniek Nuryanto, a resident in charge of the family welfare motivation association (PKK), first heard about Banjarsari’s domestic waste management plan.
A year later, she became so interested that she sent a group of women from her local PKK to Banjarsari to study the neighborhood’s methods.
“We studied environmental issues, such as the garbage management system and greening activities,” Niniek said, adding that unlike Banjarsari, Rawajati had poor soil that didn’t lend itself to growing plants.
The PKK members, on their return from Banjarsari, immediately set to work organizing cleanliness and greening competitions between the small neighborhood associations that make up the larger area.
“Our residents’ enthusiasm was greater than we had expected,” Niniek said.
“The peak of our efforts was on Dec. 23, 2003, when a monthlong neighborhood cleanliness and greening competition made our RW [neighborhood unit] 03 a much better place to live.”
A particular innovation in Rawajati was the use of wastewater for watering plants. The residents modified open sewers and ditches to channel wastewater to plants and flower pots.
“In addition, we also set up trash cans everywhere, so everybody, at anytime, could throw their garbage into the trash cans, not into the Ciliwung River anymore,” Niniek said.
Now visitors to the area are greeted by lush greenery, flowers and birdsong, an achievement that earned the neighborhood the title of “best RW” in terms of cleanliness and environment in 2004. It topped the Jakarta governor’s list of the 2,900 RWs across the city.
In 2005, Rawajati was runner-up in a nationwide contest for the cleanest and most environmentally friendly village. The following year, it also won a Kalpataru award.
Both Rawajati and Banjarsari residents separate their waste, turning the organic matter into compost and therefore reducing the amount of garbage that has to be handled by the city, which lags behind the two neighborhoods.
“The waste management system we built is not integrated with the city administration, which does not apply a waste management system yet, so the inorganic garbage that we separate here is mixed up again with organic garbage when picked up by the city garbage trucks,” Noerdjaja said.
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