Residents Of Sidoarjo Complaints The River's Five Years Of Waste Filled, Even Though The Water Is For Sawah Waters

JAKARTA - Sidoarjo Regency Government, East Java, has accelerated the process of cleaning rivers filled with garbage in Sumberejo Village, Wonoayu because it has been used to irrigate rice fields. Deputy Regent Sidoarjo Subandi said his party was responding quickly to complaints from the public through social media. "According to the reporter, the garbage in the river has not been handled for five years," said the vice president on the sidelines of conducting a river review, Friday, January 13, quoted from Antara. Subandi said that there should be direct coordination between the village and related agencies so that the waste problem in this river is immediately handled considering that the river water was used to irrigate the rice fields. "The sub-district and village governments must also act quickly in responding to problems in their area," he said., in resolving problems like this, it must be coordinated with related agencies such as the Public Works Service of Bina Marga and SDA and DLHK for river maintenance.

"As it seems now is clearly very disturbing. Especially with the lack of river maintenance, it clearly causes problems in the environment such as flooding and the lack of maximum function of the river used as agricultural irrigation," he said. Let's work together to fix the environment, especially regarding the problem of improving rivers that are free from garbage so that river benefits can really be felt," he said.