DKI Provincial Government Urged to Develop Waste Management Roadmap from Upstream to Downstream

Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Citizens’ Forum (FAKTA) has called on the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to develop a roadmap for waste management from upstream to downstream, involving active community participation and ensuring transparency and accountability in the budgeting of every programme. “Jakarta cannot continue to be managed in the old way. There needs to be a paradigm shift from merely chasing projects to achieving real and measurable environmental salvation,” said FAKTA Indonesia Chairman Ari Subagio Wibowo in a statement in Jakarta on Saturday. According to him, the landslide disaster at the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST) in March 2026 proves the weakness of Jakarta’s waste management system. That condition, Ari said, has triggered new problems in society, from difficulties in disposal to the potential increase in illegal dumping practices. For that reason, he assessed that the incident cannot be seen merely as a technical mishap, but as a reflection of long-standing management failures. “The Bantargebang TPST landslide is a loud alarm that our waste management system still relies on an old, unsustainable pattern,” Ari stated. “Community complaints have been conveyed through neighbourhood-level organisations, but they are deemed not to have received responses that touch the root of the problem,” Ari added. Furthermore, he mentioned that field issues are becoming increasingly complex. Limitations in transport fleets and daily trip restrictions have caused pile-ups of waste carts at several points. “This condition not only disrupts comfort but also worsens urban environmental quality,” Ari said. He views the root of the problem as lying in a development orientation that still focuses solely on physical projects, not on long-term ecological solutions. That issue, he continued, then makes the waste management system unable to keep up with the increasing volume of waste in Jakarta. As a corrective step, FAKTA Indonesia urges the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government to immediately conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the performance of the DKI Environmental Agency, while taking concrete steps to address the current waste disposal crisis. In addition, the DKI Provincial Government is also asked to develop a waste management roadmap from upstream to downstream, involving active community participation, and ensuring transparency and accountability in the budgeting of every programme implemented.