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TOP REPORT “Kupilah” Strategy in

Reducing Waste Production

By applying the Reducing, Sorting and Recycling (Kurangi, Pilah and Olah) strategy, total waste
in Jakarta reduced by 30%.

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Public Facil-
ity Maintenance
Agency (PPSU)
officers were sorting
plastic waste. After
being sorted, those
plastic waste will be
transported to waste
banks.
.
Credits
Safran H.

n unfortunate tragedy happened (HPSN) ever since. 21 2020.
st
in February, 21 2005. A moun- The Governor of DKI Jakarta, Anies According to him, the avalanche
st
Atain of 60 meter high trashes Baswedan reminded us again of the of waste in TPA Leuwigajah can not be
slided and buried 157 people. Two vil- tragedy happened 15 years ago. “Today easily forgotten. It is rather an event to
lages were vanished underneath the we commemorate an event we wish to give lessons on how we should change
sliped trashes. The tragedy occured in never happen again: a tragedy in Leu- the method to manage waste. The waste
Final Disposal Site (TPA) Leuwigajah, wigajah in 2005,” he said in an opening should be considered as reusable tools,
Cimahi, West Java, and being remem- speech of HPSN in RW 03, East Cempa- eventhough coming as remains from
bered as National Waste Awareness Day ka Putih Central Jakarta, on February, our daily activities. “We need to change