Waste in Indonesia
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INDONESIA, 2013/12/15
The foul smell from passing garbage trucks is expected to decline with the procurement of 92 new garbage disposal trucks this month.
Governor Joko “Jokowi” Widodo looked satisfied at the same time as he introduced the brand new trucks parked side by side with several old rusty trucks in the parking lot of Pulomas racetrack in East Jakarta on Wednesday.
“Garbage is a huge problem for us in Jakarta and you can see that our trucks are 20, 25 and even 30 years old. That is why we have bought these new trucks,” he said next jumping onto the driver’s seat of a new truck and driving it a few meters.
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INDONESIA, 2013/06/11
The Jakarta Sanitation Office revealed on Tuesday that it is planning on building environmentally-friendly temporary waste dumps in each of the city’s neighborhood units.
“Ideally, in each RW [neighborhood unit], there should be one environmentally-friendly temporary waste dump that meets the Indonesian National Standard [SNI]. These dumps should have green belts and buffer zones with aromatic, smell-absorbing plants such as bamboo, jasmine and sandalwood,” Unu Nurdin, the chief of the office, said.
