Adi Arnawa Prepares Multi-Billion Rupiah Awards for Villages with Effective Waste Management
Badung Regent I Wayan Adi Arnawa is preparing awards for villages and municipalities capable of managing waste independently with sound systems. Villages receiving awards will receive funding totalling billions of rupiah.
Awards will be distributed through the upcoming Mangupura Award event. The Badung Regency Administration will tighten the assessment indicators for the Mangupura Award with a primary focus on the effectiveness of waste segregation management from the upstream level, or households.
“We will now detail the assessment indicators further so that it will address what may have been suboptimal previously, particularly waste management and segregation from the source,” said Adi Arnawa on Monday, 9 March 2026.
This step is being taken as a strategy to accelerate waste management in Badung, given that the Suwung Final Processing Facility (TPA) in Denpasar will be completely closed to all types of waste from 1 August 2026. This situation requires the public, institutions, and organisations to manage their own waste.
The waste management system in the Badung region is now required to be based on segregation between organic and inorganic waste so that only residue remains to be sent to landfill.
“So from 1 April to 31 July that will be residue. After 1 August 2026, Suwung TPA will be completely closed. What does that mean? It means we must start now to strengthen our position in order to accelerate waste management as we all hope,” said Adi Arnawa.
The Badung Regency Administration is using the Mangupura Award instrument as an incentive for 16 municipalities and 46 villages to compete in waste management in their respective regions. Villages or municipalities assessed as having achieved excellence will receive awards in the form of Special Financial Assistance (BKK) valued at billions of rupiah.
“And we have done this before, in fact previously we gave each village a basis as consideration for providing BKK assistance, if I recall correctly also in the billions. So our hope is that on one hand they receive financial assistance from the regency government, but based on performance,” explained Adi Arnawa.
The former Badung Regional Secretary will even adjust the 2026 Amended Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD) for the Mangupura Award. The increase in reward value will depend heavily on the effectiveness and real impact of the villages’ commitment to waste segregation.
“I forgot if previously, before that, there was Rp 5 billion for development in each village, now it may be around 1.x billion, somewhat lower. We will see in the amendment later; if the commitment is good and turns out to have significant impact, certainly we will consider increasing the value,” explained Adi Arnawa.