Central Java Provincial Government and Two Local Governments Manage Waste into Electricity
Semarang - The Central Java Provincial Government, Semarang City Government, and Kendal Regency Government are collaborating to manage waste into electrical energy.
The collaboration was marked by the signing of a Joint Agreement on the Implementation of Environmentally Friendly Technology-Based Waste Processing into Electrical Energy at the Central Java Governor’s Office in Semarang on Saturday.
The signing was conducted by Central Java Governor Ahmad Luthfi, Semarang Mayor Agustina Wilujeng Pramestuti, and Kendal Regent Dyah Kartika Permanasari.
The Minister of Environment and Forestry/Head of the Environmental Control Agency (BPLH), Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, was also present.
Hanif expressed his appreciation to the Central Java Governor for the seriousness and concrete operational steps in handling waste in Central Java.
“Through the leadership of the Governor, we hope that by 2026 there will be a surge in the waste management rate,” he said.
He stated that this step is important to address waste problems in urban areas with high generation rates.
The effort to process waste into electrical energy is a fundamental step to end national waste management issues.
For areas like Greater Semarang, he said, a high-technology-based approach is considered an effective choice because the large volume of waste can no longer be adequately handled by conventional methods.
Meanwhile, Central Java Governor Ahmad Luthfi emphasised that accelerating waste handling in Central Java is a follow-up to the President’s policy targeting the resolution of waste issues by 2029.
“There are already three regencies forming RDF, then collaborating with cement factories, namely Banyumas, Cilacap, and Magelang. Then six regencies are also heading towards RDF,” he said.
He revealed that waste generation in Central Java reaches nearly 6.4 million tonnes per year, but from that amount, only about 30 percent is managed, while the rest is not yet maximally handled.
With the joint agreement between the Central Java Provincial Government, Semarang City Government, and Kendal Regency Government in building waste processing into electrical energy, he said, it becomes one of the important steps in the roadmap for waste handling in Central Java.