Discrepancy Between Reality of Jakarta's Rubbish Piles and Pramono's Claims

JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - DKI Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung claimed that all rubbish piles that had occurred in various parts of Jakarta have been cleaned up and are now organised again.

“Now everything is organised again, and some piles not only in Kramat Jati, but in several places as well, but now almost all those piles are clean again,” said Pramono at Jakarta City Hall, Central Jakarta, on Tuesday (31/3/2026).

Rubbish piles at the Temporary Waste Storage Site (TPS) Rawadas, Pondok Kopi, Duren Sawit, East Jakarta, have been mounting up to around three metres in the last two weeks.

This condition was triggered by restrictions on activities at the Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST) Bantargebang, Bekasi City, following a landslide.

Kompas.com observations at the location on Tuesday showed that queues of rubbish carts were still occurring.

Several officers were seen manually transferring rubbish into trucks to speed up the transportation process.

The proximity has also impacted the surrounding environment. Roads around the TPS appeared muddy due to leachate flowing from the rubbish piles.

As a result, passing motorists had to be more careful because the road surface became slippery.

Pondok Kopi Ward Head, Sandy Adamsyah, said the rubbish accumulation has been happening for the last two weeks, triggered by the landslide at TPST Bantargebang and the increase in waste volume after the Eid holiday.

“The accumulation at TPS Rawadas RW 02, Pondok Kopi Ward, indeed occurred after the landslide at Bantargebang and after the Eid holiday. But for today, thank God, we will carry out transportation of four trucks,” said Sandy Adamsyah when met at TPS Rawadas on Tuesday.

However, the current amount has increased to more than 20 carts per day, thus causing the accumulation.