DENPASAR - Bali Governor Wayan Koster has intensified monitoring the use of crackle bags in traditional markets by relying on the Disposable Plastic Use Restriction Team (PSP) and source-based waste management (PSBS).
Koster said that since the beginning of the implementation of the Bali Governor Regulation Number 97 of 2018, it has been quite successful in implementing modern markets, malls, hotels and restaurants, but has not been properly implemented in traditional markets.
For this reason, he wants to intensify supervision of the use of plastic packaged bags, straws, and drinks that are still widely found and used in traditional markets.
"In traditional markets, I see that their commitment has decreased, more and more people are wearing plastic bags, we have to intensify supervision, we have to work hard, in limiting the use of single-use plastic, we must be firm, there is no compromise anymore," he said.
The Bali Provincial Government wants this enforcement to start at the village, sub-district, district and provincial levels, and the PSP and PSBS Teams consisting of 11 working groups and 12 sectors commanded by 10 regional apparatus organizations (OPD) of the Bali Provincial Government as sub-coordinators.
This team is asked to work hard to develop a roadmap for program implementation and report on the progress of the results expected every month.
"All the teams involved moved quickly, made the stages of achievement every month and the benchmarks, immediately synergized, worked hard so that the results could be seen, the garbage in Bali was well overcome and Bali became clean and beautiful," said Koster.
Luh Riniti Rahayu as the team coordinator said that both traders and buyers in traditional markets still use plastic bags to wrap and carry groceries.
In the report on the results of the PSP and PSBS Team studies, it was also stated that the daily output of waste reached 3,436 tons, of which 64.86 percent were organic and 17.25 percent were plastic.
"Public awareness of waste sorting from sources is also still low and there is still a lack of concern and understanding from village officials about the governor's regulation so that it becomes the cause of the non-optimal implementation of the governor's regulation in the field," he said.
Of the 716 villages/kelurahan, only 290 villages have Waste Processing Places, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle (TPS3R) or 426 villages/kelurahan that do not have TPS3R, plus from the existing 290 TPS3R, 90 percent are still problematic in terms of capacity, governance, human resources and budget.
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