I am optimistic that the Association of Indonesian Waste Banks would also help waste banks throughout Indonesia in management issues. We should use a more professional one. We will leave the stall management
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Ministry of Environment and Forestry has pressed for Indonesia's waste banks to adopt a more professional management to encourage them to grow, with the support of the Indonesian Waste Bank Association (ASOBSI).

"I am optimistic that the Association of Indonesian Waste Banks would also help waste banks throughout Indonesia in management issues. We should use a more professional one. We will leave the stall management," the ministry's Director General of Waste Management, Waste and Hazardous Toxic Materials (PSLB3), Rosa Vivien Ratnawati, stated.

At the 7th national meeting on waste bank held virtually here on Tuesday, Ratnawati called for professional management to develop waste banks in order to support achieving the target of 30-percent waste reduction and 70-percent waste management by 2025.


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Minister of Environment Regulation Number 14 of 2021 concerning Waste Management in Waste Banks stipulates that waste banks should has legal entities, and they can be large corporations, foundations, cooperatives, or others.

The regulation also encourages companies to fulfill their corporate social responsibility (CSR) to help waste banks.

Earlier, the minister had spoken of extending assistance in waste management, climate change, and social forestry to 3,270 "climate villages" across Indonesia to support the efforts to tackle climate change.

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The ministry is currently assisting four villages under the Climate Village Program (Proklim) in Gianyar District, Bali.

The four villages have upheld relatively good practices in waste management through a waste bank, composting activities, and a reduce-reuse-recycle waste processing site (TPS3R) involving the surrounding community.


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