Bandung City Government Made Dizzy Regarding Mounting Garbage At Ciwastra Market TPS

Heavy equipment cleans up trash at Ciwastra Market TPS, Bandung City, Monday (8/5/2023). (ANTARA)

BANDUNG - Bandung City Government (Pemkot) covered a pile of garbage that was mounting in the temporary waste disposal site (TPS) of Ciwastra Market which had already exceeded its capacity. Bandung Mayor Ema Sumarna Daily Executive Ema said that the closure was to ensure and prepare infrastructure for waste control in Ciwastra Market. "We close the zinc so that people don't come to the market directly to see the garbage mountains. Gradually within three days, we can clean it up," said Ema as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, May 8. According to Ema, Perumda Pasar must help solve the waste problem of Ciwastra Market TPS so as not to mount and become a Burden of the Environment Agency (DLH). "Perumda Pasar must have a responsibility. This will be discussed," said Ema. Apart from that, Ema also encourages regional officials to continue educating residents about waste. So that residents can reduce waste production and can hold back from disposing waste to TPS. "People still think that waste must be far away and there is no thought of thinking to be exploited. This is a big job, educating the community is not easy," said Ema. Ema. Ema said. Ema said that now as many as 20 out of 55 polling stations in Bandung City are starting to decline normally, and at this time, the number of TPS overloaded in Bandung City remains 35 polling stations. The accumulation of garbage that still occurs in a number of polling stations, said Ema, cannot be separated from the normalization process at the Sarimukti TPA, but the Bandung City Government does various waste processing efforts. Starting from the temporary TPA optimization in Cicabe, to education to communities related to waste processing. Currently, the Bandung City Government efforts through the Environment Service are to flush the sereh oil temporarily reduce the unpleasant smell due to the accreting waste, especially in TPS adjacent to the market.

Ema is optimistic that efforts to handle waste in the city of Bandung will gradually return to normal and will be better with several efforts and approaches such as education to the community. "This city belongs to the community. Let's be proportionally responsible, which is the responsibility of the government, which is community participation," he said.