West Java Governor Offers Condolences for Four Killed in Bantargebang Landfill Collapse

A landslide at the Bantargebang waste disposal site in Bekasi has resulted in a tragedy. Four residents have died after being buried by the collapse, whilst five others remain missing. West Java Governor Dedi Mulyadi has expressed his condolences regarding the incident at the facility, which serves as the main waste disposal site for Jakarta residents and is managed by the Jakarta provincial government.

“There is sad news I must convey. A landslide has occurred at the Bantargebang landfill in Bekasi City. This facility is the waste disposal site for Jakarta residents, managed by the Jakarta provincial government,” he said on Monday, 9 March 2026.

According to him, four people died in the disaster, whilst five others are currently still being searched for. “May those who have passed away be accepted with faith and Islam, forgiven all their sins, and granted a place of honour beside Allah Almighty,” he said.

He expressed hope that the ongoing search operations would quickly locate the residents still buried. Going forward, he also hopes that management at the landfill can be improved to prevent further collapses.

“Let us make this disaster a lesson for us so that we remain vigilant at all times, as such calamities often occur unexpectedly,” he said.

Previously, a landslide of a 50-metre-high garbage mound in Zone IV of the Bantargebang waste disposal site occurred on Sunday, 8 March 2026 at 14:30 WIB. This incident is not the first of its kind.

Bantargebang has now repeated a deadly tragedy spanning from a residential collapse in 2003 to the collapse of Zone 3 in 2006, which claimed lives and buried dozens of waste pickers. This pattern of systemic failure has continued through January 2026, when a platform subsidence dragged three waste trucks into a river, followed by another garbage mound collapse in March 2026.