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Man fined for throwing garbage into Central Jakarta river
His act was caught on a camera and posted by the Jakarta Water Body Management Unit on their official Instagram account.
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A photo of a man throwing garbage into the Kali Krukut River in Central Jakarta was posted on the Instagram account of the Jakarta Water Body Management Unit on Jan. 30. (Instagram/upkbadanairdlhdki)
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man named Mukhlicin was fined on Thursday for throwing garbage into Kali Krukut River in Kebon Dalam, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta the day before.
He was fined Rp 300,000 (US$21.46) for violating Bylaw No. 3/2013 on waste management.
Mukhlicin was caught dumping a bucket of household trash into the river on Wednesday afternoon, when a river cleaning officer was on duty nearby.
The officer, standing in ankle-deep water nearby, watched the man empty his dust bin.
Mukhlicin's act was caught on camera and posted by the Jakarta Water Body Management Unit on their official Instagram account, @upkbadanairdlhdki. The post attracted more than 700 comments, most of which condemned the man’s act.
“This is an example of an act that should never happen in any part of the Earth. In an ironic act, a man intentionally threw a bucket of trash into a river when a Water Body Management Unit officer was on duty,” the photo's caption read.
On Thursday afternoon, the unit’s official Instagram posted that Mukhlicin had been fined.
The banks of the Kali Krukut are crowded with houses. Many of the residents reportedly have a habit of throwing their garbage into the river, despite the city administration’s daily efforts to clean it. As a consequence, floating trash and stink have become an everyday reality around the area.
