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        "msgid": "badung-deploys-900-officers-to-sort-50-tons-of-illegal-waste-1776441059",
        "date": "2026-04-17 21:52:19",
        "title": "Badung Deploys 900 Officers to Sort 50 Tons of Illegal Waste",
        "author": "",
        "source": "DETIK_BALI",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "The Badung Environment and Cleanliness Service has mobilised approximately 900 sanitation workers, known as the \"Ant Army,\" to sweep streets and manually sort 40 to 50 tons of mixed illegal waste daily at the Mengwitani Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST), aiming to prevent overload amid the closure of the Suwung landfill to organic waste since 1 April 2026. Despite government efforts to encourage source separation of organic and inorganic waste, significant amounts of improperly disposed rubbish, particularly in tourist areas like Kuta, continue to burden the facility, prompting the deployment of processing machinery and stricter enforcement. Local authorities are intensifying village-level monitoring, involving the Civil Service Police Unit, and preparing light criminal hearings every Wednesday to penalise offenders, underscoring the need to cultivate waste separation habits to protect Bali's tourism image and manage downstream capacity constraints.",
        "content": "<p>The Badung Environment and Cleanliness Service (DLHK) has deployed\naround 900 sanitation personnel to comb through and sort waste at the\nMengwitani Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST). This measure is\nintended to prevent the integrated waste processing site from becoming\noverloaded when receiving waste.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of officers, nicknamed the Ant Army, began work at 05:00\nWITA by sweeping the streets. They then gathered at the processing site\nat 08:00 WITA to sort the waste.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, the personnel must handle around 40 to 50 tons of mixed\nwaste found in the field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey manually sort the illegal waste that we find on the roadside\nevery day. Most of what we find is in tourist areas,\u201d said the Secretary\nof DLHK Badung, Made Rai Warastuthi, on Friday (17\/4\/2026).<\/p>\n<p>Rai explained that this situation persists despite the government\nclosing the Suwung landfill to organic waste since 1 April 2026. The\npolicy is expected to encourage the public to sort organic and inorganic\nwaste at the source.<\/p>\n<p>However, in the field, officers still encounter a lot of unsorted\nwaste, even dumped carelessly on the roadside.<\/p>\n<p>This condition is commonly found in the Kuta, North Kuta, and South\nKuta areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is placed by suspected individuals, whose waste origin we do not\nknow, who may not yet be aware of sorting. We bring it to the TPST to\nmaintain the tourism image because most of the waste comes from tourist\nareas,\u201d Rai explained.<\/p>\n<p>TPST Mengwitani Overloaded<\/p>\n<p>DLHK Badung also operates various processing machines, from organic\nwaste sorters and wood shredders to compost mixers, to accelerate\nhandling.<\/p>\n<p>This effort is carried out because the TPST Mengwitani is already\noverloaded, so the waste volume must be reduced from upstream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis practical culture has been going on for years, so we are not\nyet accustomed to separating organic and inorganic waste. Meanwhile, our\ndownstream conditions here are already overloaded, so we must also\nreduce from upstream,\u201d he clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Monitoring and Sanctions Tightened<\/p>\n<p>In addition to deploying sanitation personnel, the Badung Regency\nGovernment is strengthening monitoring through task forces at the\nvillage and sub-district levels and involving the Civil Service Police\nUnit (Satpol PP).<\/p>\n<p>Strict sanctions in the form of light criminal offence hearings\n(tipiring) are prepared for residents caught littering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership has urged task forces in every village and\nsub-district to be active, and Satpol PP has planned tipiring hearings\nevery Wednesday for violators. We do this to keep the area clean,\u201d\nconcluded Rai Warastuthi.<\/p>",
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