Environment Minister reminds regional authorities: landfill open dumping to cease by 2028

Jakarta (ANTARA) – Minister of Environment (LH), Hanif Faisol Nurofiq, has reminded that the issue of waste management must be resolved as soon as possible, given that the open dumping of waste at final processing sites (TPA) should end by 2028. During a Coordination Meeting on Waste Management in Jakarta on Wednesday, Minister LH/Head of the Environmental Control Agency (BPLH), Hanif, reminded that President Prabowo Subianto has ordered serious steps to resolve the national waste issue. “The President reminded all of us that our final waste processing sites will technically reach the end of their lifespan in 2028. Because, to date, almost all of our final processing sites are already 17 years old,” said Minister LH Hanif in front of regional heads and local government officials at the meeting. Therefore, he invited local governments to work together to formulate steps to resolve the waste issue from the source, thereby reducing the amount of waste that ends up at TPAs or leaving only residue that ends up there. The practice of open dumping at TPA sites has decreased, with an assessment by KLH/BPLH showing a reduction in the practice from 95 per cent in 2025 to 66 per cent of the total. Consequently, there are still 481 TPAs that continue to practice open dumping. The cessation of the practice of open dumping at TPA sites is being carried out to achieve the target of 100 per cent waste management, as outlined in the National Medium-Term Development Plan (RPJMN) 2025-2029. The government has a target this year for waste management to reach 64.3 per cent. According to data from the National Waste Management Information System (SIPSN) of KLH/BPLH, national waste generation in 2025 reached 24.8 million tons, of which 65.45 per cent remains unmanaged. Copyright © ANTARA 2026 It is strictly prohibited to take content, crawl or automatically index for AI on this website without written permission from the ANTARA News Agency.