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View all search resultsGovt wants Bantargebang landfill cleared in 2 years in waste-to-energy push
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A person sifts through waste on Nov. 22 at the Terjun landfill in Medan, North Sumatra. (Antara/Yudi Manar)
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he government has set a two-year deadline to clear the massive Bantargebang landfill in Bekasi, West Java, leveraging the accelerated waste-to-energy program.
Waste-to-energy technology processes refuse into electrical or thermal energy, mostly through incineration, significantly reducing its volume.
The push comes as Indonesia grapples with a waste management crisis. In 2023, the volume of waste generated nationwide hit 56.63 million tonnes, and around 61 percent of that was still handled through open dumping.
“So, God willing, Bantargebang will be gone in two years, and Bandung, and everywhere else, will be gone in two years,” Coordinating Food Minister Zulkifli Hasan said in Jakarta on Tuesday, as reported by news agency Antara.
The process of converting waste into energy is stipulated in Presidential Regulation No. 109/2025 on urban waste management using “environmentally friendly” technology.
Zulkifli noted that only three waste-to-energy projects had been launched in the past 11 years, with the slow adoption of the technology blamed on complicated licensing requirements.
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