Tugu Muda replica made of garbage

Tugu Muda replica made of garbage

SEMARANG: Students grouped under the Student Nature Lovers of
Semarang State University have created a replica of the renowned
Tugu Muda, the city's landmark, from garbage in protest over
improper management of waste.

The same height as the original landmark, the replica now
stands 15 meters high in the yard of the library building of the
university.

Chairman of the replica's technical team Dwi Harjana said that
garbage was deliberately chosen as the main raw material for
making the monument because, as the group saw it, problems
related to garbage had not been managed properly.

"We still witness garbage being dumped into rivers every day.
It's obviously polluting," Dwi said.

It took twenty-five people and three weeks to finish the
replica using some 2.8 tons of garbage and 250 pieces of wood of
four by six centimeters thick and three meters in length.

For their innovative idea, the Indonesian Museum of Records
(MURI) granted the group a certificate of merit as the first and
biggest replica made of garbage. It was the 1492nd certificate
the museum has issued and was directly handed over to the group
by MURI director Paulus Pangka on Tuesday. -- JP