Garbage Dominated By Batang Kayu Starting To Be Dirty On Bali Beach

Officers while cleaning up trash in the Seminyak, Legian, and Kuta areas, Monday (9/12). (PHOTO DLHK Badung).

A number of coastal or coastal areas in Badung Regency, Bali, are starting to be surrounded by shipments of garbage. This happened along with the increasing intensity of rain on the Island of the Gods.

The Coordinator for the Detection of Marine Waste Evacuation (Desalut) of the Badung DLHK Made Gede Dwipayana said that garbage stranded in the coastal area of Badung Regency, Bali, had occurred since the end of November 2024.

"It has started at the end of November 2024," he said, Monday, December 9.

The waste is dominated by wooden twigs and wooden sticks. Until now, about 200 tons of garbage has been transported in the Samigita Beach area, namely Seminyak, Legian and Kuta.

Meanwhile, in the Kedongan area, Jimbaran, and in other southern areas, it has not been transported because it has just been cleaned.

"We can't collect it every day and we have to collect it first and after collecting it at several points we will transport it. Now only about 200 tons have been transported, it's in Seminyak, Legian, Kuta. And this also happened in Kedongan and Jimbaran, we haven't transported it yet, but we have cleaned it up," he said.

Every time entering the rainy season, the shipment of garbage always comes to coastal areas in Badung Regency.

In addition, because it had entered the west wind and the garbage was adrift in the sea and eventually stranded in the Badung coastal area.

"This means that this is routine like this, when it comes to the rainy season, the wind begins to change from the west muson wind, things like this have started to happen. And this has started routinely like this," he explained.

His party predicts that the peak of this shipment of waste will occur in January 2025 and will end from March to April 2025.

Meanwhile, the Badung Regency Government deployed 600 personnel who were deployed on the coast and 12 heavy equipment to clean up trash in the Badung Regency area.

In addition, his party also urges tourists when playing or bathing on the beach to be careful because there is still a lot of garbage floating in the ocean.