Jakarta Residents Now Obliged to Sort Waste from Home...

The Jakarta Provincial Government is overhauling the city’s approach to waste management. From the upstream end, residents are being encouraged to sort waste starting from their homes. Meanwhile, downstream, waste will be processed into energy. Among other goals, there is hope that Jakarta will no longer rely entirely on a single disposal site. Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung has signed Governor’s Instruction (Ingub) No. 5 of 2026 on the Waste Sorting and Processing Movement. “I have signed the governor’s instruction for the waste sorting process, and in the near future we will collaborate with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry for the declaration of waste sorting in Jakarta,” Pramono said at Jakarta City Hall on Monday (4/5/2026). This step is crucial amid the increasingly limited capacity of the Bantargebang Integrated Waste Processing Site (TPST). For years, much of Jakarta’s waste mountain has ended up there—a system that is now starting to feel fragile. Waste sorting is not actually new. In Rorotan, North Jakarta, this practice has been trialled. However, the DKI Provincial Government now wants to make it a broader movement, reaching the entire city area. The hope is simple but not light: waste will no longer be mixed from the start, making management more effective and sustainable. However, in the field, readiness is not yet fully even. Jakarta DPRD member August Hamonangan assesses that residents actually already have the willingness.