Garbage Here And There After The May Day Fiesta Mass Action In Front Of The DPR Building, Cleaning Officers: Only 30 Minutes To Clean It

The Environment Service's sweeper car while operating cleans up trash along Jalan Gelora after the May Day Fiesta action in front of the Indonesian Parliament Building. (Photo: Ulfa Gusti Utami)

JAKARTA - The oration in front of the DPR building which involved a joint mass of the Labor Party and the Indonesian Workers' Movement, left homework for the cleaners. After the action which lasted for about an hour, trash was seen scattered on every street corner.

This is certainly a big task for the Environmental Service (DLH) officers who also work closely with the Public Facilities and Infrastructure Handling Officer (PPSU).

"If we are used to this (cleaning garbage after mass demonstrations) we don't feel disturbed, we are used to dealing with it," said M. Suhermanto, DLH cleaning supervisor, at the location.

Suhermanto said the cleaning process only took a short time. In addition to being cleaned manually, garbage is also vacuumed with a special car.

"Cleaning this (garbage) along Jalan Gelora will only take 30 minutes at most," said Suhermanto.

"It can be fast because apart from manual there are four sweeper cars as well, this time, there are three helpers from PPSU at this time and there will be a total of 50 officers from DLH who will help," he continued.

According to Suhermanto, the majority of the waste that was left after the mass action in front of the RI House of Representatives was trash used for food and beverage packaging. He also said that the garbage is the type that is easy to clean, but it's a different matter if it rains.

Suhermanto hopes that in the future mass actions or residents can be more orderly and care about waste. This is to keep the environment beautiful and facilitate the work of the cleaners.

"The hope is that it will be more orderly, even though we don't care how much garbage we have left, we will still clean it because it's normal," said Suhermanto ending.