Fire At Sarimukti TPA Not Visiting Padam, Bandung Issues BTT Including The Form Of A Waste Emergency Task Force

Archives: The situation of the Sarimukti TPA fire, West Bandung Regency, which has occurred in the last few days. (ANTARA/HO Bandung Regency Government)

The Bandung City Government will immediately issue Unexpected Costs (BTT) for handling waste including establishing a Waste Emergency Task Force in response to the fire at the Sarimukti TPA which has been going on in the last few days. The Daily Executive (Plh) of the Mayor of Bandung, Ema Sumarna, said this was also a response to the West Java Governor's decree which stated that Bandung Raya was in a state of waste emergency since August 24, 2023. "Therefore, we will issue a Acting Mayor's Decree relating to the use of BTT because it coincides with the use of the budget and so on. In addition, we will design a Waste Emergency Task Force, which Insyaaaallah on Monday has been completed," Ema said in a statement in Bandung, quoted from Antara, Sunday, August 27. Ema explained that the BTT budget was issued with the obligation to be carried out in an emergency condition. "As it is today, we both do not expect that a disaster will occur at the Sarimukti TPA," he said. Regarding the formation of the Waste Emergency Handling Task Force, Ema explained that the Bandung City Government reflected on the successful handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, at which time the Task Force was also formed. "This Waste Management Task Force will later contain ranks from the Bandung City Government and also the Bandung City Forkopimda," he said. These steps, said Ema, are also due to the current 95 percent of Temporary Disposal Sites (TPS) in Bandung City being overloaded, and the City Government responds to them by handling them through a substitution pattern. With the Sarimukti TPA fire which is reportedly still ongoing and efforts are being made to deal with weather engineering and water bombs which resulted in the closure of the facility, Ema admitted that receiving information on the delivery of waste to the Sarimukti TPA could be carried out starting Monday (28/8) even though it was not optimal. "Indeed, it cannot be used until a time that cannot be determined. However, based on records that hopefully this will be accurate, starting Monday, 98 out of 241 garbage truck queries from Bandung can access the Sarimukti TPA. Well, but there are still more than a hundred trucks that have not been able to transport garbage there," said Ema. A total of 98 garbage trucks are quotas for the Bandung City Government to be able to access waste disposal to the Sarimukti TPA after the fire. Because it has not been maximized, Ema asks the people of Bandung City to collaborate to deal with waste problems together, one of which is by implementing the Kang Pisman program in their respective homes.

"We ask the public to be equally wise. We will hold on to the garbage until Sunday, and hopefully on Monday, this can slowly return to normal," said Ema. With various efforts to optimize, Ema ensured that the garbage that had accumulated at the TPS did not become scattered on the highway which became a scene of not wearing it.