DLH Bantul Focuses On Completing ITF Niten Waste Hangar Development

BANTUL - The Environmental Service (DLH) of Bantul Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region is still focused on completing the construction of a garbage treatment hangar at the Intermediate Treatment Facility (ITF) in the Niten Market area.

"For the ITF of Niten Market regarding current development updates, we are still focusing on the physical completion of the hangar construction work with about 80 percent of work," said Head of DLH Bantul Bambang Puwadi Nugroho after attending the 80th Anniversary of Indonesian Independence ceremony in Bantul, Sunday.

He said the construction of the ITF hangar at Niten Market in Kasihan Subdistrict will continue to process until later it can reach one hundred percent, considering that the presence of the hangar can maximize waste processing, especially organic waste from the traditional market.

In the construction of the Niten Market ITF waste processing hangar, the local government budgeted Rp3 billion of funds from the Bantul Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD), which is targeted for hangar work to be completed by September 2025.

"The achievement of waste processing performance at ITF Niten Market is around one ton per day only to complete internal waste processing in Niten Market, which is mostly organic waste," he said.

Regarding the waste processing capacity in the ITF of Niten Market, his party is still reorganizing from the previous one that was able to process waste volumes of around seven to eight tons per day.

He said the waste processing at the Niten Market ITF should be maximized, later collaboration with various parties needs to be carried out, because the waste treatment site aims to deal with waste problems, and the local environment can enjoy the results of waste processing services.

However, said Bambang, through the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Republic of Indonesia, his party hopes for the growth of the spirit of collaboration and awareness with all elements of society for the resolution of waste.

"Filling waste at the upstream level is a very important key by ensuring that people can sort waste in the household and finish organic waste in their yard," he said.

Furthermore, he said that the completion of organic waste in the yard could be used by using the method of making juglalans or holes in the ground, especially people who own land in the yard of the house.