Residents Reject the Plan for the Waste Management Subcommittee with a Quota of 2,500 Tons at the Rorotan RDF

Residents of Rorotan Village are protesting again regarding the plan for the management of waste to a maximum capacity of 2,500 tons per day at the Rorotan Refuse Derived Fuel (RDF) Plant, Cilincing, North Jakarta.

Residents assessed that the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and the DPRD and the sub-committee had ignored the aspects of the environment and the health of residents in pursuit of the quota target alone.

"If the garbage is still mixed, I am worried that with the maximum condition of 2,500 tons of mixed garbage, it can be ascertained that there will be a smell and it will interfere with the comfort and health of residents," said Coordinator of the Tolak RDF Waste Plant Health Care Forum, Wahyu Andre when confirmed, Thursday, June 25, 2026.

Wahyu said that residents had a different view regarding the handling of the Rorotan RDF Plant.

"According to residents' views, there are several things that are crucial to evaluate at the Rorotan RDF plant," he said.

Wahyu explained that the DPRD sub-committee focused on two things, namely the process of transporting garbage and the procurement of land acquisition for access roads for garbage-carrying trucks.

"This means that there will be another procurement of trucks this year and the procurement of land release for road access for the trucks to pass. According to residents, the crucial thing is not that (the addition of trucks). But the crucial thing is the waste product (which is thrown into the Rorotan RDF)," he said.

Wahyu said that waste that was thrown into the Rorotan RDF had to go through the waste sorting stage.

"So the garbage is sorted, only dry garbage goes into RDF to be processed," he said.

When the garbage that is about to be thrown into the RDF has not been sorted, the garbage is still in the truck. And at the time of loading or unloading this material to the RDF waste plant, it will release gas (unpleasant smell) that evaporates into the air.

"When they do this process, the hangar door or the warehouse door is open. When there is wind passing, the smell is everywhere. We propose that a door (automatic) is usually made," he said.

Later, when the garbage carrying truck enters the door, the air is absorbed and sucked by the machine.

"So when the process of loading garbage, the smell does not go anywhere. That's the most urgent," he said.

It is just known, currently the operational tonnage of waste at the Rorotan RDF is still below 1,000 tons. Residents say that with this amount, there is still a lot of waste and air pollution that harms the community.

The haze and air pollution, continued Wahyu, were caused by the waste that entered and was processed in the factory which was still mixed waste, not waste that had been sorted or waste of the 3R category: Reduce (reduce), Reuse (reuse), and Recycle (recycle).

"We warn, if the RDF party still insists on the target of 2,500 tons in the midst of the upstream waste management conditions which are still mixed, and there is a widespread health and environmental impact, the affected residents are sure to return to the streets to voice the relocation or closure of the Rorotan RDF Plant," he said.