South Jakarta Administration to Provide Four Segregated Waste Bins in Every Neighbourhood Unit

The South Jakarta Environment Sub-agency (Sudin LH) is preparing four sorted waste bins at every neighbourhood unit (RT) as an effort to support the programme of sorting waste at its source.

“We are preparing four waste bins as collection points in every RT. The placement of the bins will later be determined by the RT chairman at a location easily accessible to residents,” said Head of South Jakarta’s Environment Sub-agency Rizky Febriyanto at a Regional Coordination Meeting (Rakorwil) at the South Jakarta Mayor’s Office on Thursday.

Rizky said waste that has been sorted at household level is expected to remain separated until collection by waste cart officers.

The agency has also asked and educated waste cart officers not to re-mix waste that has already been sorted.

“Organic waste that has been sorted and collected in these special containers is then taken to the nearest collection point or processing facility such as the modern teba or jumbo biopori available,” he said.

Furthermore, if those facilities are full, sorted organic waste in particular can be taken to the nearest waste transfer station (TPS).

At the TPS, the agency will provide special containers in the form of 660-litre dustbins, the number of which will be adjusted to the volume of waste generated at each location.

According to Rizky, the provision of sorted waste bins and dustbins at TPS aims to give residents certainty that waste they have sorted will not be mixed again during the management process.

“Any excess waste will be taken to further processing facilities while maintaining its separation. We are striving to keep this commitment to prevent disappointment among residents who have taken the trouble to sort their waste at home,” he said.

The programme thus forms part of the South Jakarta city government’s efforts to improve waste management based on sorting at the source, while encouraging public participation in reducing waste.

As previously reported, the Bantargebang waste processing site (TPST) will only accept residual waste from 1 August 2026, so residents are being encouraged to get into the habit of sorting waste from home.

To that end, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has prepared a roadmap towards ending the open dumping practice at the Bantargebang TPST, one measure being a movement to sort waste from home.