KLH Opens The Opportunity For TPA Criminals To Hoard Garbage Openly

A number of scavengers are active in piles of garbage in the TPS3R Rawa Badak Utara area, North Jakarta, Monday (3/3/2025) ANTARA/Prisca Triferna

JAKARTA - The Ministry of Environment (KLH) said there is a potential for criminal law enforcement against a number of managers of Final Processing Sites (TPA) who are still doing open dumping or hoarding garbage openly.

Minister of Environment (LH) Hanif Faisol Nurofiq said that his party was preparing to control 343 open dumping TPAs throughout Indonesia.

"The potential is criminal, but if you look at the character, I did not precede the investigator, maybe around 7 locations to the crime. But this is only a criterion. It is still a process, we cannot precede investigators," he said when met in a review at the Reuse Waste Management Site, Reduce, Recycle (TPS3R) in Rawa Badak Utara, North Jakarta, Monday, March 3, confiscated by Antara.

Although he has not been able to confirm the number of TPAs that will be subject to criminal law enforcement measures by the Deputy for Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Environment and Forestry, Minister Hanif stated that a number of legal steps cannot be avoided due to environmental pollution that has occurred.

"Because there really is pollution, it is very difficult. So we will do a criminal act, we will end the open dumping," added Minister Hanif.

He said preparations had been made to curb hundreds of open dumping TPAs, including drafting to resolve the issue in the future.

Hanif said repairing the open dumping TPA requires a process that is not short and must go through a number of processes. His own party will provide a time lag while ensuring that the repair process by the TPA manager continues.

He also reminded that to maximize waste management in the regions according to statutory regulations, an allocation of about three percent is needed from the Regional Revenue and Expenditure Budget (APBD).