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        "msgid": "environment-ministry-prepares-waste-roadmap-updates-producer-rules-1788861023",
        "date": "2026-09-08 16:17:00",
        "title": "Environment Ministry prepares waste roadmap, updates producer rules",
        "author": "",
        "source": "ANTARA_EN",
        "tags": "",
        "topic": "Regulation",
        "summary": "Indonesia's Environment Ministry is preparing a staged waste management roadmap for 2025-2029 aimed at achieving 100 percent waste management under the National Medium-Term Development Plan. Deputy Vinda Damayanti Ansjar told Parliament the country generates 144,562 tons of waste daily, with only about 25 percent properly managed, and said the ministry is revising producer responsibility rules to require businesses and importers to fund packaging waste recovery through a new Producer Responsibility Organization.",
        "content": "<p>Environment Ministry Deputy Vinda Damayanti Ansjar said the roadmap\nwould be developed in stages to meet the 2025-2029 National Medium-Term\nDevelopment Plan target of 100 percent waste management.<\/p>\n<p>She said 2026 priorities include improving governance, ending open\ndumping and reviving material recovery facilities, followed by major\ninfrastructure development in 2027 and broader sustainability efforts\nthrough 2029.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Parliament\u2019s Commission XII on Monday, Vinda said\nIndonesia generates 144,562 tons of waste daily, growing 1.48 percent\nannually, while the population stands at 285.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>About 25 percent of the waste is managed, while most of the remainder\ngoes to 522 landfills, 70 percent of which still use open dumping,\nsending about 36.59 percent into the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Related news: Indonesia pushes interregional synergy to tackle\ngrowing waste crisis<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has 40,267 waste-processing facilities, including Reduce,\nReuse and Recycle centers, village waste disposal sites and waste banks,\nalthough many require greater capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Vinda said her office was revising Ministerial Regulation No.\u00a075 of\n2018 on producer waste reduction to clarify the Extended Producer\nResponsibility scheme and make it more practical for businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The revised regulation would establish a Producer Responsibility\nOrganization, a nonprofit body formed by producers to coordinate\npackaging waste management and recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Producers would be required to pay fees to the organization to\nfinance packaging waste management and recovery, while the obligation\nwould also cover product and packaging importers.<\/p>\n<p>Related news: Indonesia targets 30 regions for waste management\nimprovement via LSDP<\/p>\n<p>Vinda said importers would assume responsibility for products and\npackaging they bring into Indonesia, describing the provision as a new\nfeature of the revised regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Translator: Prisca Triferna, Resinta Sulistiyandari<\/p>",
        "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/environment-ministry-prepares-waste-roadmap-updates-producer-rules-1788861023",
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