Four South Kalimantan Regions Receive IDR 473 Billion for Waste Management

Apart from the four regions in South Kalimantan, the first phase of LSDP was also given to Bontang City and Kutai Kartanegara Regency in East Kalimantan (Kaltim) and Kapuas Regency in Central Kalimantan (Kalteng).

According to Rifqinizami, cleanliness issues must be handled seriously because they are directly related to environmental quality, public health and regional competitiveness.

“This LSDP program is intended to carry out waste management at the city district level,” he said.

Through this program, local governments are encouraged to add waste management facilities, including waste processing sites using the principle of reduce, reuse, recycle or TPS 3R and integrated waste processing sites or TPST.

Waste management is not only carried out centrally at the final processing site. Handling is also directed from communities, villages, sub-districts and other smaller areas so that the volume of waste can be reduced before it reaches the disposal site.

The waste that has been collected will be processed with the support of machines and technology to produce products that have both use and economic value.

“Then it is processed through machines and the results must be economically beneficial. "It can be used as material for making roads, fertilizer, and so on," he said. said Rifqinizami.