Gulingan Village in Badung Allocates Rp 4 Billion for Waste Management

The Village Government (Pemdes) of Gulingan in Mengwi District, Badung, is working to resolve its waste problem without using incinerators. A sum of Rp 4 billion has been allocated from the Gulingan Village Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBDes) to implement the reduce, reuse, and recycle (3R) concept. “We are consistent with that, we do not use an incinerator here so that we do not change the 3R concept,” said Gulingan Village Head (Perbekel) I Ketut Winarya during a visit to the Sapuh Jagat TPS3R facility in his village on Wednesday (8/7/2026). Winarya revealed that the Pemdes Gulingan finances all production, including routine operations, employees, equipment mobilisation, and personal funds, necessitating an expenditure of Rp 4 billion from the APBDes each year. The funds are allocated for the operation of the Sapuh Jagat 3R Waste Processing Site (TPS3R), which has been operating since April 2022. This budget is considered commensurate with the burden of managing waste from 2,242 official households, or approximately 8,700 residents of Gulingan Village, who produce up to 6.7 tonnes of waste per day. “Before I explain the amount of waste from the population that we transform at the TPS, this TPS (3R) was built in 2021 and we began operating it in April 2022. So, from the analysis of daily waste generation calculations, we have almost 6.7 tonnes,” explained Winarya. To optimise the absorption of the operational budget, the Pemdes Gulingan has formed a special task force operating on the front lines. A total of 187 environmental health cadres (kesling) have been deployed to monitor the movement of waste sorting at the household, banjar, subak, and primary school levels using a digital system. “The function of the kesling cadres is throughout Gulingan, covering each banjar, subak, and primary school. They monitor the movement of waste sorting, including to the waste bank. The system is now built on digitalisation to check the waste, identifying which kesling cadres, consisting of traditional leaders, official representatives, community representatives, and institutions, are involved,” Winarya detailed. This intensive digital-based supervision has successfully cut the bureaucratic path of waste collection in the community from a rigid schedule to a dynamic pick-up system. If the waste sorting bag at a resident’s house is full, they simply contact the local kesling cadre so that the transport fleet comes directly to the location. “So, when it is full at the community level, they just contact the kesling, so I no longer wait for a schedule. We just pick it up, weigh it, transport it, and pay,” Winarya explained.