BUMN Invites Mandalika Residents To Turn Garbage Into Gold, How?

BUMN invites residents in the Mandalika Circle, Central Lombok, NTB, to sort waste into gold. (Photo via ANTARA/Akhyar)

MANDALIKA - Several State-Owned Enterprises collaborated and built a waste bank in Mandalika, Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. This program is to invite residents around Mandalika to turn waste into gold.

Residents in the Mandalika circle are expected to be able to sort and collect waste that can be used as a source of income.

"Residents in these six buffer villages, in particular, can save with garbage that has been sorted into a waste bank. After that they can take gold, after they have saved enough waste," said Head of the Corporate Social Responsibility Division of Pegadaian Rully Yusuf in Praya, Central Lombok, as reported by Antara, Saturday, March 26.

The BUMN Service for Indonesia in Mandalika was attended by BUMN Minister Erick Tohir virtually, via Instagram live broadcast.

"The BUMN Service Program is employee volunteering which aims to increase the awareness of BUMN employees for the community and the environment through active involvement as volunteers in the implementation of the Social and Environmental Responsibility Program (TJSL) in each BUMN and across BUMN," he said.

Volunteers, he said, can help increase local residents' understanding of good waste management, so they can suppress the habit of littering and at the same time get more benefits from sorting waste at the Putri Nyale Waste Bank.

For this reason, he said, the socialization was carried out, starting with the cultivation of values, habits and rules in maintaining environmental cleanliness by using the principle of reduce, reuse, recycle (3R), especially in managing household waste.

"The presence of a waste bank is expected to support people's interest in sorting waste at home and then managing it at the bank," he said.

The Coordinator of TJSL at the Ministry of SOEs, Teddy Purnama, said that this waste bank is one of the integrated waste selection sites, in order to answer the waste problem at the Mandalika tourist attraction. In addition, this program is a form of BUMN's commitment to care for the environment in Mandalika in particular, as well as in other tourist objects.

"This is to educate the public to care about waste and encourage the economic growth of MSMEs, because waste also has a promising economic value when it is managed optimally," he said.

Jasa Marga's Development Group Head Dwimawan Heru said that the BUMN Bakti program in Mandalika Lombok is in line with Jasa Marga's commitment to contribute to people's lives through the Creating Shared Value (CSV) program, which is to create mutual benefits and at the same time ensure the sustainability of the company's business.

“This year, the benefits of the CSV program are even more complete with the presence of selected volunteers in the BUMN Bakti program. Here they will listen to various inputs from the community and village officials and at the same time become agents of change for BUMN so that they can influence local residents. This is also a concrete manifestation of our support for the implementation of the CSR program in a better direction, according to ISO 26000 guidelines and the achievement of the SDGs," he said.