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MEDIA JAYA | 02 2020

How To Build Maggot House
(2x3m)

Light steel 0,75mm
(4 bars)
Light steel rengs Composting vs Maggot
(4 laths)
How to build
Mosquito nests/ Features Composting Maggot
mosquito nets (12)
Width Wide area Small and
Fiber roofs Arrange all the materi- needed limited area
(3-4 sheets) als and build them to a
Maggot basins (4) 2x3 metre house.
Organic Resulting to Organic fertil-
Used the basins and fertilizer organic fertilizer izer from maggot’s
Plastic containers containers to place (compost) residue
(size 90L, 1 box) maggots for decomposi-
tion process. Time needed Relatively longer Shorter time (in
(3-4 months) hours)

Materials Organic waste Organic waste
used

Infographic/Tommy.K.R

rather short life-cycle around 45 days. time, the use of maggots does not re- Besides using BSF maggots, Riki 17
It has varacious appetite: 1 kg of mag- quire vast area hence it is easy to im- suggested the use of composting and
gots would be able to decompose 3 plement the method in the RTs. “Our worms method to manage waste in
kgs of organic waste in an hour. maggot house is 2x3 meter in size,” urban areas. Although each method
The process of decomposition or- he added. It doesnt cost much to build has their own deficiency and advan-
ganic waste using maggots will pro- maggots house. He only need to spend tages, they could produce good hu-
duce residue, about 10% of the 10 millions rupiahs for a mus soil that can be used as fertilizer
total waste given. It came 2x3m maggot house. for the soil or plants.
from the maggots’ dirt “You need to spend “Either maggots or composting
and can be used as 50 millions rupi- method can decompose waste bio-
organic fertilizer for ahs for a large- logically from the organic substances.
your plants. scale house, Nevertheless, the composting meth-
Hadi also ex- which is 10x5 od needs bigger space than the mag-
plained that each meters in gots,” he explained.
day his maggots size,” he ex- While the waste decomposing with
would do almost a plained. maggots has not yet been known mas-
ton of organic waste. Researcher sively, it can be used as the medium
Those waste collected from Center for to handle household waste. The pro-
from 18 RTs (neighbour- Plant Conservation cess will be more difficult, though, as
hood units) in RW 03, Cem- and Botanic Gardens it needs its own space and food. “To
paka Putih Timur village, Central at Indonesian Institute quickly turn them into compost, we
Jakarta. Every three days Hadi would of Science (LIPI), Riki Ruhimat said need to control the air humidity and
separate the maggots to cultivate that it is a right way to use maggots water content. Dont make it too al-
them into new larvas, or to be used as in Jakarta, considering it as an urban kaline because it will slow down the
chicken or fish feed. area. “It’s more effective (to use mag- composting. This is the thing that will
He also said that the communities gots) because as in the urban area, make maggot method a little com-
are enthusiast in this natural tech- the waste produced from households, plex,” he ended.
nology. Besides the effectiveness in markets, or restaurants will be rotted
decomposing waste in such a short quickly,” he explained. sam