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MEDIA JAYA | 02 2020

The number is believed to be in-
creased, along with the increasing
number of residents in Jakarta. It also
added from the waste produced from
the commuters, which was calculat-
ed to be 4 millions of persons a day. In
2018, Indonesia Environtment Statis-
tic calculated that the waste produced
in Jakarta has reached 7,164.53 m3
per day. A total volume of 95.92% gar-
bage transported, using 1,500 gar-
bage trucks to the Bantar Gebang In-
tegrated Waste Processing Site (TPST
Bantar Gebang) in Bekasi, West Java.
The waste produced in Jakarta
were mostly dominated by the house-
hold waste, which reached 61% in to-
tal, followed by the commercial waste
from the offices, malls and many oth-
ers (28%). The rest of it, around 11%
of waste coming from the public facili-
ties.
In 2019, the heap of household
waste will potentially reach 3.02 tons
per year and predictably reach 3.2 7
tons by 2025, while the commercial
waste will reach an average of 2,152
tons per day.
A New Paradigm

The waste management is a cru-
cial issue. A poor waste management
will trigger various numbers of envi-
ronmental and health issues. Heap
of trashes will produce toxic liquid
named leachate which will then flow
to the river and soil, mixed with the
soil water. If the organic waste enters
the water channels, it will reduce the
oxygen level and trigger the develop-
According to the World Bank data, The Provincial Government of DKI ment of harmful organism.
the city residential waste keeps on Jakarta (Pemprov DKI) in the capital The World Bank has recorded that
increasing. In 2012, residents in the city of Indonesia are struggling upon poor waste management would con-
city produced an average of 1.2 kilo- this issue. According to the data from tributed to the flooding and diseas-
grams per person per day of residen- the Environmental Services of DKI Ja- es like diarrhea. The data from World
tial waste. It was twice the amount of karta, people of Jakarta produced an Health Organization (WHO) shown
waste in 2002, where the waste pro- average of 0.7 kg of waste per person that people lives in the areas with-
duced was 0.64 kg per person per day. per day. With the total of 10.18 mil- poor waste management seemed to
Considering this increasing pattern, lions residents (from the data of Sta- have two times higher risk of diarrhea
it is predicted that the average of city tistic Indonesia [BPS] in 2017), Jakarta and six times higher risk of respirato-
residential waste in 2025 will reach produced an average of 7,100 tons of ry diseases.
1.42 per person per day. waste per day. Hence, the City Study Center re-