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Friends with Food (FWF) Pilot project in Rawamangun, Jakarta: changing consumer perspectives through community-driven initiatives
Group Study Proposal Prepared by: Maryati Indonesia Tun Aung Kyaw Myanmar Sophy Ly Cambodia Nguyen Thi Hoang Anh Vietnam Mohd Hazwan Hamidi Malaysia Phouthong Sorinxay Laos Loh Pei Ying Singapore IATSS Forum 62nd Batch, 9 November 2019
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2
1. Executive Summary 4
2. Introduction 6
3. Background 9 3.1 T he problem: Waste Crisis 9 3.2 Understanding the problem 12 3.3 Problem identification and analysis 14 3.4 Problem Statement 18
4. Designing the solution 19 4.1 S ustainable Community Design 19 4.2 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 20 4.3 Case Studies and Literature Review 20
5. Proposed solution 24 5.1 O ur objectives 24 5.2 Pilot project: Rawamangun 24 5.3 Our solution: Friends with Food (FWF) 26 5.4 Our action plan 27 5.5 Stakeholders 30
5.5.1 Identifying key stakeholders 30 5.5.2 Identifying key stakeholders 31
5.5.3 Power-Interest Matrix of Stakeholders 32 5.6 Objectives & Targets 33 5.7 Risks and Mitigations 35
6. Implementation Plan 36 6.1 A wareness Phase: Campaign on waste sorting and composting 36 6.2 Development Phase: “Mottainai” learning module and training for capacity building 38 6.3 Operation Phase: Community Gardening, Community Composting and Community Cooking 39
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7. Budget 42
8. Conclusion 43
9. Annex 44 Annex 1 - Project Design Matrix 44 Annex 2 - Plan of Operation 45
10. Bibliography 46
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1. Executive Summary Jakarta today is facing a major waste crisis, but this is not a problem unique to the Indonesian capital. Many other megacities of developing nations face a similar problem, and it is a problem endemic to Southeast Asia. But due to Indonesia’s large population and rapid urbanisation, it generates the most amount of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the region, of which the majority is organic waste. Like many other Southeast Asian 1
nations, Indonesia’s only large-scale solution to waste management is to dump it at a landfill. For Jakarta, most of this waste goes to a single final solution, which is the Bantar Gebang landfill located in the neighbouring Bekasi city. It is predicted to run out of capacity by 2021. This problem is an urgent one for Jakarta and presents many challenges. At the heart of the problem is the ever-increasing consumption growth, coupled with a waste management system that simply cannot keep up. Hence, our project will focus on solving the issue at the consumer side of the issue. We seek to create a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) named Friends with Food (FWF) that seeks to act as a facilitator within communities to change consumer behavior to sort their waste, and reduce food loss. Our main objective in this proposal is this: we want to create a system in which households can gain a deeper appreciation for food, and develop an awareness of how much waste their lifestyles generate. To achieve this, we hope to create a self-sustaining circle of activity that will inculcate waste-sorting, communal composting, growing a communal garden, and cooking workshops that help households gain a deeper appreciation for food. The budget for the 3 year-implementation plan is projected to be $157,320, which mainly covers the labor cost ($54,000). There will be 3 core activities consisting of building awareness, development of resources and space, and the operational stage. Building awareness takes the form of organising a socialisation campaign that seeks to encourage waste sorting and composting in households. The developmental stage takes the form of preparing the legal entity, the proposed system, and the curriculum
1 Amrit Jain, ‘Waste Management in ASEAN Countries. Summary Report’ (Thailand: United Nations Environment Programme, 2017), https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/21134/waste_mgt_asean_summary.pdf
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development for training and capacity building with the community on waste sorting, composting, and gardening. The operational stage takes form of community composting, gardening and cooking. The total budget for the core activities will be $43,200 for 3 years. This project will be launched in June 2020 starting with the social campaign. In the first 3 years, the project is expected to be deployed in 10 communities in Jakarta. The training and capacity building through workshops will be held monthly and is expected to reach 90% of households in those communities. Operating and executing the community composting is projected to cost $14,400 for 3 years, and reach 80% of the households in those communities. For community gardening and cooking, it is expected to cost $14,400 for 3 years and reach 70% of the households in those communities.
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2. Introduction Jakarta is located on Java Island, and is the country’s capital. Once known as ‘Batavia’, the city has a long and illustrious history, and was the headquarters of the commercially powerful Dutch East India Company. Today, Jakarta is the most populous city and the largest metropolitan area in Southeast Asia. Between 1970 to the present, the city’s population has more than doubled, growing from 4.5 million to 10.6 million. It is projected to reach 13.6 million by 2035. 2
In the last two decades, Indonesia’s GDP growth rate has averaged around 5% each year. This has also caused rapid urbanisation within the country, with more than 55% of 3
the country’s population living in urban areas today. A large part of the urbanisation 4
happens within Jakarta, and this has clearly posed huge challenges to the municipal government who struggles to build sufficient capacity and infrastructure for this rapid urbanisation. 5
2 ‘Jakarta Population 2019 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)’, World Population Review, accessed 4 November 2019, http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/jakarta-population/ 3 ‘GDP Growth (Annual %) - Indonesia | Data’, accessed 4 November 2019, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=ID 4 ‘World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations’, UNITED NATIONS DESA / POPULATION DIVISION , accessed 4 November 2019, https://population.un.org/wup/Country-Profiles/ 5 Andrew Jeffreys, Paulius Kuncinas, and Oxford Business Group, The Report: Indonesia, 2015 : Economy, Banking, Real Estate, Insurance, Energy, Tourism, Construction, ICT, Industry, Capital Markets, Transport, Interviews , 2015, 81–82.
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Fig.1 Percentage of Population in Urban and Rural Areas, 2018.
Source: UN DESA, Population Division, 2018. 6
Increasing consumption and lifestyle changes Rapid urbanisation and economic growth has not only changed the infrastructural landscape of Indonesia, but also lifestyles and consumption habits. Indonesia’s middle-class population is said to have grown from 1.6 million in 2004 to its current 52 7
million, which is about 20% of the country’s population. It was reported in early 2019 that 8
Indonesia’s consumption confidence ranks third in the world. There is a strong 9
concentration of middle-class in Jakarta, and this has driven consumption growth in the
6 World Urbanization Prospects - Population Division - United Nations’, UNITED NATIONS DESA / POPULATION DIVISION , accessed 4 November 2019, https://population.un.org/wup/Country-Profiles/ 7 Fahwani Y Rangkuti and Thom Wright, ‘Indonesia Retail Report Update 2013’ (Jakarta, Indonesia: USDA Global Agricultural Information Network, 13 December 2013), 2, https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/report/downloadreportbyfilename?filename=Retail%20Foods_Jakarta_Indonesia_12-13-2013.pdf 8 ‘Indonesia’s Growing Middle Class Boosts Consumer Spending’, Oxford Business Group, 16 April 2019, https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/analysis/loosening-belt-growing-middle-class-boosts-consumer-spending 9 Norman Harsono, ‘Indonesia’s Consumer Confidence up, Ranks Third in the World’, The Jakarta Post , 25 February 2019, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/02/25/indonesias-consumer-confidence-up-ranks-third-in-the-world.html
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city tremendously. In addition, due to the density of the city, and that two-thirds of the 10
population commute from the city’s periphery to the city centre, severe traffic jams are a daily occurence. The city is estimated to US$3 billion annually due to traffic. 11
10 Angus Grigg, ‘Consumption King for Indonesia’s New Middle Class’, Australian Financial Review , 11 April 2019, https://www.afr.com/world/asia/consumption-king-for-indonesia-s-new-middle-class-20190411-p51d3b; ‘Indonesia’s Growing Middle Class Boosts Consumer Spending’, Oxford Business Group , 16 April 2019, https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/analysis/loosening-belt-growing-middle-class-boosts-consumer-spending 11 ‘From Traffic Jams to Floods, Can Indonesia’s “Big Durian” Be Fixed?’, TODAYonline, 24 November 2017, https://www.todayonline.com/world/traffic-jams-floods-can-indonesias-big-durian-be-fixed
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3. Background 3.1. The problem: Waste Crisis
Jakarta faces many challenges today, but one of the most pressing issues is its inability to deal with the city’s waste. According to the Head of the Jakarta Environment Agency, Isnawa Adji, the city purportedly produces 7,000 tonnes of municipal solid waste per day,
of which nearly all of it goes into landfills. To compound the issue, this waste is 12
unsorted and untreated, which poses huge challenges for waste management at the landfill sites. This situation has been described by many newspapers as a ‘waste crisis’. 13
The bulk of Jakarta’s waste goes to one final disposal site, Bantar Gebang, which is southeast of the city in the Bekasi district. The Bantar Gebang landfill site was established in 1989, and is about 200 hectares in size. Today, it holds an estimated 39 million tonnes of garbage, and it is predicted to reach its maximum capacity of 49 million tonnes by 2021. Locals refer to the site as ‘The Mountain’ and measures close to 40 14
metres in height. 15
Government officials estimate that about 3000 families live on the landfill site, and the majority of them work as trash-pickers. Their jobs are to sort the trash at the landfill, and 16
sell the inorganic waste for recycling. Needless to say, this work is extremely dangerous and hazardous to health. Medical waste is also dumped on the site, and trash-pickers are always at risk of exposing themselves to needles. On occasion, parts of the ‘mountain’ will fall onto the trash-pickers and bury them alive. 17
12 ‘Jakarta Generates up to 2,400 Tons of Plastic Waste Daily’, The Jakarta Post, 10 August 2018, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/08/10/jakarta-generates-up-to-2400-tons-of-plastic-waste-daily.html 13 Basten Gokkon , ‘Indonesia, Facing a Waste Crisis, Plans to Burn It for Electricity’, Mongabay Environmental News, 22 July 2019, https://news.mongabay.com/2019/07/indonesia-facing-a-waste-crisis-plans-to-burn-it-for-electricity/ 14 Karim Raslan, ‘Southeast Asia’s Landfills Expose the Big Western Lie about Recycling’, South China Morning Post, 15 July 2019, https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/society/article/3018609/waste-piles-higher-jakartas-vast-landfill-western-lie-about 15 Jacopo Pasotti and Elisabetta Zavoli, ‘People Are Living Inside Landfills As The World Drowns In Its Own Trash’, HuffPost, 23 October 2018, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/plastic-trash-pollution-landfill_n_5b9fcc13e4b013b0977d47ce 16 ‘Increasing the Concern for Bantar Gebang Through the Book “Di Balik Tirai Aroma Karsa” (2018)’, Waste4Change, 30 August 2018, https://waste4change.com/increasing-the-concern-for-bantar-gebang-through-the-book-di-balik-tirai-aroma-karsa-2018/ 17 Arpita De Joshi Shamani, ‘A Look at the Lives of People Separating Waste at One of Asia’s Biggest Garbage Dumps’, Vice , 18 September 2019, https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/59nd7n/a-look-at-the-lives-of-people-separating-waste-at-one-of-asia-india-biggest-garbage-dumps-deonar-ragpickers-segregation
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Beyond that, the estimated 18,000 people living in villages around Bantar Gebang also suffer from various pollutions. The first of this is obviously air pollution, and the foul 18
odour emitted from the rubbish is said to linger 24 hours a day. The situation is so severe that the city of Jakarta to compensates residents of Bekasi with ubang bau (smelly money) at RP200,000 per household per month, which the villages around Bantar Gebang still find insufficient. The methane gas produced by the landfill site is also 19
dangerous for human health. It is susceptible to combustion, which happened in 2015 and claimed 3 lives. Moreover, methane is a huge contributor to global warming and 20
can absorb 34 times more heat than carbon dioxide within a 100-years period. 21
The unsanitary landfill site also causes water and soil pollution that poses health risks. Leaching from the landfill site has polluted the groundwater. Families on the landfill site 22
use this polluted water everyday to wash their rice and vegetables. They also often eat vegetables grown at the dumpsite. Children around the dumpsite also commonly suffer 23
from skin rashes, respiratory diseases and diarrhea. Evidently, the living conditions in 24
and around the site are unsanitary, and residents have to live with pests such as mosquitoes, flies, and roaches. The severity of the situation has led to conflict between Bekasi and Jakarta city. In October 2018, the residents of Bekasi halted 51 garbage trucks and prevented them from dumping trash into Bantar Gebang. They argued that Jakarta city has not taken sufficient action to resolve the issue, and threatened to close the facility. This is not the first 25
occasion this has happened. Clearly, the situation is unsustainable.
18 ‘Residents Threaten to Close down Landfill in Bekasi’, The Jakarta Post, 18 May 2018, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/05/17/residents-threaten-to-close-down-landfill-in-bekasi.html 19 ‘Bantar Gebang Residents Ask for Increase in “Smelly Money”’, The Jakarta Post, 25 October 2018, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/10/24/bantar-gebang-residents-ask-for-increase-in-smelly-money.html 20 ‘Increasing the Concern for Bantar Gebang Through the Book “Di Balik Tirai Aroma Karsa” (2018)’, Waste4Change, 30 August 2018 21 Arpita De Joshi Shamani, ‘A Look at the Lives of People Separating Waste at One of Asia’s Biggest Garbage Dumps’, Vice , 18 September 2019 22 E.R. Pujiindiyati and P. Sidauruk, ‘Study of Leachate Contamination in Bantar Gebang Landfill to Its Shallow Groundwater Using Natural Isotope Tracers of 18O, 2H and 3H’, Atom Indonesia 41, no. 1 (6 June 2015): 31, doi:10.17146/aij.2015.353. 23 Shunsuke Sasaki et al., ‘Household Income, Living and Working Conditions of Dumpsite Waste Pickers in Bantar Gebang: Toward Integrated Waste Management in Indonesia’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 89 (August 2014): 17–18, doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.05.006 24 Jacopo Pasotti and Elisabetta Zavoli, ‘People Are Living Inside Landfills As The World Drowns In Its Own Trash’, HuffPost , 23 October 2018 25 ‘Bekasi Halts 51 Jakarta Garbage Trucks En Route to Bantar Gebang’, The Jakarta Post , 18 October 2018, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/10/18/bekasi-halts-51-jakarta-garbage-trucks-en-route-to-bantar-gebang.html.
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Unsustainability Indonesia as a whole is incredibly reliant on landfills as a final disposal method for its waste. For this, national legislation was put in place to prevent unsanitary conditions of landfills. In 2008, the Waste Law No. 18/2008 was passed to cover concerns related to public and waste management services. Article 22 and 44 required local governments to run landfills that were environmentally sound. Likewise, conditions at Bantar Gebang were meant to be decent, and the site’s design required trash to be layered with dirt. However, it is clear that authorities are unable to increase capacity sufficiently to match the ever increasing consumption habits. While the issue at Bantar Gebang sounds severe, it represents only a fraction of the issue that Indonesia faces. Across the entire country, an increasing number of sanitary landfills are being transformed into open dumpsites. 26
Fig.2 Percentage of open-dumping vs controlled & sanitary landfills from 2016 to 2018.
Source: The Jakarta Post, 2019. 27
26 ‘Inadequate Landfills Worsen Indonesia’s Waste Problems’, The Jakarta Post , 3 March 2019, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/03/03/inadequate-landfills-worsen-indonesias-waste-problems.html 27 ‘Inadequate Landfills Worsen Indonesia’s Waste Problems’, The Jakarta Post , 3 March 2019, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/03/03/inadequate-landfills-worsen-indonesias-waste-problems.html
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3.2. Understanding the problem In a further analysis of Indonesia’s waste, it turns out that the main component of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in the country is food and organic waste, forming 64% of the total waste produced. MSW essentially refers to the general trash or garbage produced by the public’s everyday activities.
Fig.3 Municipal Solid Waste Composition in Indonesia (2009).
Source: United Nations Environment Programme 28
Studies have proven that there is a strong correlation between the increase in food waste and urbanisation. In order to keep up with the demand of growing urban populations, elaborate global supply chains have replaced the traditional and usually short-distance supply chains. This often requires long-haul transport, storage facilities, and refrigeration. Food is lost at every intersection. 29
28 Amrit Jain, ‘Waste Management in ASEAN Countries. Summary Report’ (Thailand: United Nations Environment Programme, 2017), 12–13, https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/21134/waste_mgt_asean_summary.pdf 29 Tammara Soma, ‘(Re)Framing the Food Waste Narrative: Infrastructures of Urban Food Consumption and Waste in Indonesia’, Indonesia 105, no. 1 (2018): 176, doi:10.1353/ind.2018.0007.
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Rapid urbanisation and economic growth has also affected traditional buying networks and habits. In the past, residents were able to commute conveniently within their communities and purchase food from local vendors. These local vendors also generally sell domestically grown and seasonal foods. But now, traditional shops, such as the tukang sayur (mobile vegetable vendor) and wet markets are simply unable to compete with multinational supermarkets in terms of variety, supply, quality, and price. Modern shopping experiences encouraging bulk buying or overbuying is also prevalent (for example, buy one get one free). The inconvenience of traffic and commute also promotes bulk and overbuying on a regular basis. 30
Fig. 4 Our model of the current waste management system To better understand how waste is generated and thrown, we created a model to understand the problem more fully. Through this, we can section the chain in three parts. First, as described previously, food is wasted when it is transported between the food industry, supermarkets, and the households. Modern supermarkets in Indonesia and around the world apply strict aesthetic standards for fruits and vegetables. Produce that do not meet these cosmetic standards are rejected and often also thrown away. Within supermarkets as well, when they are unable to sell excess food, this is usually thrown out. 31
30 Tammara Soma, ‘(Re)Framing the Food Waste Narrative: Infrastructures of Urban Food Consumption and Waste in Indonesia’, Indonesia 105, no. 1 (2018): 181-184, doi:10.1353/ind.2018.0007. 31 Tammara Soma, ‘(Re)Framing the Food Waste Narrative: Infrastructures of Urban Food Consumption and Waste in Indonesia’, Indonesia 105, no. 1 (2018): 184, doi:10.1353/ind.2018.0007.
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Secondly, due to rapid urbanisation and changes in lifestyle, households now buy more than they can actually consume. This means there is excess food lost at the households level. In Jakarta’s current waste management system, there is no practice for waste sorting at the source. This means organic waste, together with plastics, metals, and so on, are thrown together collectively. Hence, even if organic waste is biodegradable, it is unable to do so properly because it is not separated from inorganic waste. At present, the city government services are in-charge of collecting MSW from households in Jakarta. In the third part, the MSW may sometimes be deposited in a repository centre, but it eventually ends up in the open and unsanitary final disposal landfill. As already described, the pollution caused by the landfill poses severe health threats and environmental degradation to the community around Bantar Gebang. With our understanding of the problem in these three parts, we came up with three core questions to analyze the problem. They are:
1. What are the contributing factors to organic waste creation in Jakarta? 2. What are the challenges of the existing waste management system? 3. How severe is the pollution and how does it affect people’s lives?
3.3. Problem identification and analysis
In our research, we identified seven factors in answer to our three questions. What are the contributing factors to organic waste creation in Jakarta?
1. Increasing Population Indonesia is the most populous country in Southeast Asia. Currently the country’s population is at 267 million, and is predicted to reach almost 300 million in 2035. This 32
growth will be concentrated primarily on the island of Java. As mentioned previously, 33
Jakarta is experiencing rapid urbanisation and its projected population in 2035 will be
32 ‘Population, Total - Indonesia | Data’, accessed 5 November 2019, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL?locations=ID 33 Gavin W Jones, ‘The 2010 – 2035 Indonesian Population Projection’ (Jakarta, Indonesia: UNFPA, 2015), 2–3, https://indonesia.unfpa.org/sites/default/files/pub-pdf/Policy_brief_on_The_2010_%E2%80%93_2035_Indonesian_Population_Projection.pdf
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close to 14 million. Naturally, an increasing population in the city translates to increases 34
in waste produced.
2. Consumption Growth Another contributor to the problem is increasing consumption growth. The GDP per capita in Jakarta rose from $8,395 to $11,250 between 2011 and 2016, growing at an average annual rate of 5%. In Indonesia as a whole, shopping is a popular activity and 35
41.7% of spending is on food and beverages. In grocery retail industry, hypermarket accounts for 46%, supermarket is 7%, and 17% is convenience stores. 36
What are the challenges of the existing waste management system?
3. Lack of Infrastructure: Jakarta’s solution to managing their waste is solely to transport their trash to landfills. There are few alternative methods available. Landfills are not a sustainable solution because space is finite.
There are plans to build incinerators in Jakarta to deal with the city’s waste. At present, there are plans to build five incinerators, but only one is currently being constructed. It is usually referred to as the Intermediate Treatment Facility that will burn and convert waste into energy. 37
The Indonesian government has planned to build incinerators in many of Indonesia’s major cities, but strong civil society lobbying has pushed the Supreme Court to annul some of these plans due to environmental concerns. Many criticise using incinerators, or waste-to-energy (WTE) plants as an ‘end-of-the-pipe’ solution. The waste generated 38
during the incineration process is sometimes deemed even more hazardous than the actual solid waste.
To compound the issue, the current collection system is inefficient and outdated. Some studies stated the city’s equipment to deal with waste is outdated and unable to respond
34 ‘Jakarta Population 2019 (Demographics, Maps, Graphs)’, World Population Review, accessed 4 November 2019, http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/jakarta-population/ 35 ‘Jakarta (Special City District) GDP per Capita, 2010-2018 - Knoema.Com’, Knoema , accessed 6 November 2019, https://knoema.com//atlas/Indonesia/Jakarta-Special-City-District/GDP-per-capita 36 Enterprise Singapore, ‘Indonesia Consumer Insights: Tapping the Consumer Dollar in Food and Retail’ (Singapore: Enterprise Singapore, 2013), https://ie.enterprisesg.gov.sg/-/media/ie-singapore/files/events/iadvisory-series/indonesia-2013/2indonesia20consumer20insights20by20ie20singaporeie20singapore.pdf?la=en 37 ‘Groundbreaking of Jakarta’s First Incinerator Slated for next Week’, The Jakarta Post, 16 December 2018, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/12/16/groundbreaking-of-jakartas-first-incinerator-slated-for-next-week.html 38 Tanya Lee Robert-Davis and Lea. B Guerrero, ‘ADB & Waste Incineration: Bank Rolling, Pollution, Blocking Solutions’ (Quezon City, Philippines: Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, November 2018), https://www.no-burn.org/wp-content/uploads/ADB-and-Waste-Incineration-GAIA-Nov2018.pdf
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efficiently to the growth in the volume of garbage generated. Garbage collection vehicles are not sufficiently automated, and transportation often takes a long time due to traffic congestion. In addition, garbage reloading facilities are underdeveloped, hindering efficient garbage collection. 39
4. Limited Landfill:
As mentioned, Bantar Gebang is predicted to reach its capacity of 49 million tonnes by 2021. There is also an increasing trend of sanitary landfills being converted into open dump sites. This issue arises primarily because landfill is finite, and therefore is an unsustainable solution to waste management. In addition, there are delays in the development of final landfill sites. Hence, it becomes an urgent problem when landfills 40
reach their maximum capacity, as it may mean that the waste will spill into urban areas.
5. Inadequate policy-making and implementation Generally, there is insufficient government support or focus on waste management. Policies are focused only on economic growth, which by extension, focuses on increasing consumption capacity. With increased purchasing power, there will also be 41
more waste generated. This is as opposed to focusing policy on dealing with consumption or waste management and reduction. Indonesia has also been late to legislate on waste management. Prior to 2008, there simply was no existing regulation on waste management. In 2008, the Waste Law No. 18/2008 was enacted by the national government that covers waste management, incentives and disincentives mechanism, funding, shared responsibilities among authorities, and penalties for disobeying the law. Another law was passed again in 2012 to ensure that the legal obligations required by Waste Law No. 18/2008 are fulfilled, and also to cover issues concerning household and industrial waste. Even with these laws in place, implementation is still inadequate. There is a need for these laws to be accompanied with sound policy, good law enforcement, infrastructural development, financial support, community awareness. 42
39 JICA, ‘Jakarta Solid Waste Management System Improvement Project ’, January 2003, https://www.jica.go.jp/english/our_work/evaluation/oda_loan/post/2003/pdf/2-14_full.pdf 40 JICA, ‘Jakarta Solid Waste Management System Improvement Project ’, January 2003, https://www.jica.go.jp/english/our_work/evaluation/oda_loan/post/2003/pdf/2-14_full.pdf 41 Ucu Martanto , ‘An Urban Environmental Security Perspective on Jakarta’s Waste Management System’, Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (ASSEHR) 138, no. International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affair (2017): 20–23. https://download.atlantis-press.com/article/55909020.pdf 42 Shunsuke Sasaki et al., ‘Household Income, Living and Working Conditions of Dumpsite Waste Pickers in Bantar Gebang: Toward Integrated Waste Management in Indonesia’, Resources, Conservation and Recycling 89 (August 2014): 11–21, doi:10.1016/j.resconrec.2014.05.006.
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6. No Waste Sorting At present, there is no system for waste-sorting at the source. This simply means households do not sort their waste, and are not incentivised to do so. Any form of waste sorting is mostly performed by unorganized scavengers who pick up recyclable waste from household waste bins, at a temporary-storage facility, or at the landfill. Research has shown that the public’s resistance to at-source waste sorting is due to the perceived low contribution of recycling to waste reduction, problems associated with collection, and relatively inexpensive landfills. In a survey done with households in 43
Jakarta, it was found that 83% of the respondents agreed that they have little incentive to sort their waste because there is no established community-based waste management system. In the same survey, respondents also affirmed that they were not willing to sort their waste because of lack of economic incentives, an unestablished mechanisms for treatment, and little knowledge and confidence in the current system. 44
The absence of the practice of waste-sorting at the source is a major challenge to Jakarta’s waste crisis. Without waste separation, organic waste simply will not be able to biodegrade effectively. How severe is the pollution and how does it affect people’s lives?
7. Health Hazard
As mentioned earlier, there are about 3000 families living at Bantar Gebang landfill, and around 13,000 people living in the villages around the site. Besides the constant foul odour, presence of pests and so on, the community also has to tackle air, water, and soil pollution. Trash-pickers and scavengers that live off the landfill frequently suffer from various health problems that include skin and respiratory problems. There are also other very real dangers, as it is easy to slip and fall on the site, and even be buried by the occasional trash avalanche. Since medical waste is not sorted, it is also disposed at the site, and scavengers are always at risk of infection or contracting diseases. Residents of the area also have limited access to healthcare. 45
43 Aretha Aprilia, ‘Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: Evaluation on Human Behaviour, Economy and GHG Emissions’ (Kyoto University, 2016), https://doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19904 44 Aretha Aprilia, ‘Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: Evaluation on Human Behaviour, Economy and GHG Emissions’ (Kyoto University, 2016), 105–7, https://doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19904 45 Alesasha Bliss, ‘Bantar Gebang: Trials and Tribulations of Indonesia’s “Trash Heroes”’, Jakarta Globe , 8 February 2019, https://jakartaglobe.id/context/bantar-gebang-trials-and-tribulations-of-indonesias-trash-heroes/
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3.4. Problem Statement
Based on our understanding of the factors, we proceeded to narrow our focus in finding a solution to the problem. Firstly, we eliminated four factors based on our capacity, the resources available to us, and the feasibility of tackling the issue. They are i) the lack of infrastructure, ii) limited landfill, iii) inadequate policy, and iv) population growth. Upon further inspection of the remaining challenges which are i) consumption growth, ii) no waste-sorting, and iiii) health hazards at the landfill. We decided to focus on consumption growth as we believe it to be the root cause of the problem. The issue fundamentally lies with changing lifestyles and habits, which has led to increased consumption. Nevertheless, we recognise the importance of tackling the remaining two challenges, and hence identified the problem statement as: There is a need to change consumer behavior to reduce organic waste in Jakarta for better landfill conditions, creating a sustainable environment and community. We define consumer behaviour to be, “how people make decisions about what they buy, want, need or act in regards to a product, service or company”. In our solution, we hope to address consumer behaviour in two aspects: i) how people consume food, and ii) the way people treat their food waste.
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4. Designing the solution
4.1. Sustainable Community Design
The general understanding of sustainable development today is largely derived from the Brundtland Report of 1987 created by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED). It defines sustainable development as, “[development that] meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” 46
However, the concept of sustainable development has been refined further since then. In 2015, all member states of the United Nations adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It stipulated 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to, “[provide] a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.” The pursuit of these goals have to be in tandem and complementary, and it is 47
crucial to understand how the achievement of one may affect the other. In essence, sustainable development has to balanced social, economic, and environmental factors in equal harmony.
Fig. 6. Venn Diagram illustrating the 3 important pillars of sustainability.
46 World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘Our Common Future’ (United Nations, 1987), https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/content/documents/5987our-common-future.pdf 47 ‘SDGs .:. Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform’ (United Nations), accessed 5 November 2019, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
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These are important concepts in formulating a sustainable community design. In addition, as the term ‘community’ also suggests, a sustainable community design has to take into consideration the roles that all stakeholders of society, including government, private corporations and businesses, non-profit and non-governmental organisations, grassroots, and individual citizens, and seek their active participation.
4.2. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Increasing consumption is not a problem unique to Indonesia. According to the UN, worldwide material consumption increased from 27 million tons in 1970 to a staggering 92.1 billion tons in 2017. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 48
Number 12 dictates that there is a need to ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, in order to achieve sustainable development for future generations. Within SDG 12, we identified four clear targets that we have to keep in consideration in designing our solution. They are: 49
12.3 By 2030, halve per capita global food waste at the retail and consumer levels and reduce food losses along production and supply chains, including post-harvest losses
12.4 By 2020, achieve the environmentally sound management of chemicals and all wastes throughout their life cycle, in accordance with agreed international frameworks, and significantly reduce their release to air, water and soil in order to minimize their adverse impacts on human health and the environment
12.5 By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling and reuse
12.8 By 2030, ensure that people everywhere have the relevant information and awareness for sustainable development and lifestyles in harmony with nature
4.3. Case Studies and Literature Review
48 ‘Sustainable Development Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns’, Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform (United Nations), accessed 5 November 2019, https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg12 49 ‘Sustainable Development Goal 12: Ensure Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns’, Sustainable Development Goals Knowledge Platform (United Nations).
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In designing the solution, we referred to a few case studies and some key research papers on the topic of waste management. Our research showed that developed countries often employ several solutions within their waste management system. In the case of Sweden, the final solutions to waste includes recycling, landfill, incineration, and land or water treatment. In Italy, different 50
solutions are used to deal with organic waste, mainly at-source segregated collection to produce high quality compost, and unsorted collection with disposal at the landfill after mechanical and biological stabilization. More interestingly in the city of Vaud, 51
Switzerland, a waste tax was imposed and was seen to be incredibly effective, reducing waste produced by 40%. However, it will be extremely challenging to push for the 52
implementation of these solutions in Jakarta. These solutions although effective require strong government intervention and effective implementation of the law. In contrast, our survey showed that effective waste management is universally a challenge for most developing nations. However, it was also emphasised in many research papers that in order to achieve a sustainable and successful waste management system, all stakeholders must be involved, and the solution has to 53
consider Integrated Solid Waste Management (ISWM) which covers all aspects of the issue, from waste generation to disposal. 54
There is research to prove that various forms of Community-Based Waste Management (CBWM) systems work in Indonesia. For example, Waste Banks have been successfully implemented in various parts of Indonesia, including Surabaya, Cilacap, and Sukunan 55 56
50 Caroline Eliasson, ‘Waste Management in Sweden - Case Study at the IKEA Warehouses in Almhult’ (Lund University, 2015), http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=5468156&fileOId=5468765 51 C. Buratti et al., ‘Life Cycle Assessment of Organic Waste Management Strategies: An Italian Case Study’, Journal of Cleaner Production 89 (15 February 2015): 125–36, doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.11.012. 52 Stefano Carattini, Andrea Baranzini, and Rafael Lalive, ‘Is Taxing Waste a Waste of Time? Evidence from a Supreme Court Decision’, Ecological Economics 148 (1 June 2018): 131–51, doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2018.02.001. 53 Rotich K. Henry, Zhao Yongsheng, and Dong Jun, ‘Municipal Solid Waste Management Challenges in Developing Countries – Kenyan Case Study’, Waste Management 26, no. 1 (1 January 2006): 92–100, doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2005.03.007.; Brenda Bushell and Gopal Datt Bhatta, ‘Community Practices Towards Sustainable Waste Management : A Case Study in Nepal’, 武蔵工業大学環境情報学部開設10周年特集号 3, no. 10 (n.d.), http://www.comm.tcu.ac.jp/kiyou/no8/3-10.pdf 54 Patrick A. Bowan, ‘Municipal Solid Waste Disposal in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Wa Municipality, Ghana’ (thesis, Loughborough University, 2018), https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/Municipal_solid_waste_disposal_in_developing_countries_a_case_study_of_Wa_Municipality_Ghana/9455138 55 Dyah Retno Wijayanti and Sri Suryani, ‘Waste Bank as Community-Based Environmental Governance: A Lesson Learned from Surabaya’, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 184 (May 2015): 171–79, doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.05.077 56 Adhianty Nurjanah et al., ‘Dialogic Communication Patterns between Company-Community in Achieving Community Empowerment In Indonesia : A Case Study of Waste Problem’, Global Media Journal 15, no. 28 (n.d.): 1–8.
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village in Yogyakarta. At waste banks, also known as bank sampah in Indonesia, waste 57
created by households are divided into organic and inorganic. Organic waste is turned into compost, while inorganic waste is further sorted for recycling. Residents may open an account with the waste bank where their waste is weighed, and they are paid for it. Some of these research papers have shown that waste banks have enhanced citizens’ awareness of their environment. Waste banks have gained popularity as a solution and have grown from 1000 in 2014 to nearly 8000 in 2018.
Fig. 7. Number of waste banks in Indonesia from 2014 to 2018. Source: The Jakarta Post.
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There is existing research done to further understand the waste problem at the household level. We namely referred to Aretha Aprilia, et al., “Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Socio-Economic Evaluation”, Annisa Anjian, 59
“Household Waste Management in Indonesia: What is an Effective Means to Household Waste Reduction?”, and most importantly, Aretha Aprilia, “Household Solid Waste 60
57 Shigeki Uemura et al., ‘No Longer Rubbish : Introduction of a Community-Based Waste Management System in Indonesiaʼs Sukunan Village’, 廃棄物資源循環学会誌 28, no. 4 (2017): 303–12. https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/mcwmr/28/4/28_303/_pdf 58 ‘Inadequate Landfills Worsen Indonesia’s Waste Problems’, The Jakarta Post, 3 March 2019, https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/03/03/inadequate-landfills-worsen-indonesias-waste-problems.html 59 Aretha Aprilia, Tetsuo Tezuka, and Gert Spaargaren, ‘Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: A Socio-Economic Evaluation’, Waste Management - An Integrated Vision , 26 October 2012, doi:10.5772/51464. 60 Anjani Annisa, ‘Household Waste Management in Indonesia: What Is an Effective Means to Household Waste Reduction in Indonesia?’ (Tohuku University, 2011), https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=4299
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Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: Evaluation on Human Behaviour, Economy, and GHG Emissions”. Aprilia’s dissertation was key in understanding the factors for a successful CBWM, and she identified key characteristics. Firstly, key attributes were that these communities involved at-source sorting, were of a homogenous middle-income group, were racially heterogeneous, and the initiative was started autonomously from the grassroots level. They were also independent of external assistance and had full support and recognition of all stakeholders within the community. For a successful CBWM, strong leadership was also vital in activating the community through influence and seniority. There was also clear ownership and distribution of work among all actors, and a very established system of waste collection, treatment, transaction and flows. She also found in this study that beyond the existence of an established waste treatment system, residents were motivated to sort in successful CBWM because they i) wanted to contribute to a better environment, ii) were recommended to do so by community groups, iii) received additional income from selling recyclables and that they found iv) sorting to be a pleasant activity that brings satisfaction. In this study and her earlier study from 2012, she also emphasised that communal composting CBWM was found to be the most profitable model. 61
61 Anjani Annisa, ‘Household Waste Management in Indonesia: What Is an Effective Means to Household Waste Reduction in Indonesia?’ (Tohuku University, 2011), https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=42994
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5. Proposed solution
5.1. Our objectives
Given our research findings and discussion, our proposed solution will strive to achieve the following objectives:
1. To change consumer perspective on waste creation and disposal, so that they: a. Have greater concern for the environment b. See value in waste c. Have a sense of pride with the community d. Have a heightened awareness on consumption habits
2. To reduce the amount of organic waste in the landfill by composting Hence, through our objectives, our solution has to focus on two aspects: pre-consumption, and post-consumption.
5.2. Pilot project: Rawamangun
We have decided to apply our solution first to the area of Rawamangun, located in East Jakarta. Rawamangun has a population close to 40,000 people as of 2010, and has an area of approximately of 2.63 km². The Rawamangun community consist of multiple 62
income groups. There are several common public facilities around Rawamangun such as ward office, secondary schools, hospitals, a state university, traditional markets, sport facilities and supermarkets. The comprehensive public facilities enable the community to get together for communal activities. We have analyzed the community structure of Rawamangun. It is as follows:
62 ‘Rawamangun (Quarter, Indonesia) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location’, accessed 7 November 2019, https://www.citypopulation.de/php/indonesia-kota-jakarta-admin.php?adm2id=3172090005
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Fig. 7. Community structure of Rawamangun, East Jakarta, Indonesia.
Through our research, we understand that households are the largest contributor to waste in Indonesia at 43%. Within Jakarta households, 52% of the waste produced is 63
organic waste. Hence, we need to find a way to tackle the issue at the household level. 64
To reach to the households, we decided to utilise existing community networks to carry our our activities. We plan to utilise arisan, an Indonesian form of rotating savings and microfinance. It revolves around social gatherings and informal social networks, with the meetings moving between each member’s home. In Aprilla’s findings, she argued that residents in Jakarta are largely incentivised for four reasons. They are i) to contribute towards a better environment, ii) sorting is recommended by the community, iii) additional income is gained from sorting, and iv) sorting is a pleasant activity that brings satisfaction. This was crucial to our 65
understanding and designing our solution, as we realised the issue does not lie with a lack of concern for the environment, but other factors.
63 Anjani Annisa, ‘Household Waste Management in Indonesia: What Is an Effective Means to Household Waste Reduction in Indonesia?’ (Tohuku University, 2011), https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=42994 64 Aretha Aprilia, ‘Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: Evaluation on Human Behaviour, Economy and GHG Emissions’ (Kyoto University, 2016), https://doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19904 65 Aretha Aprilia, ‘Household Solid Waste Management in Jakarta, Indonesia: Evaluation on Human Behaviour, Economy and GHG Emissions’ (Kyoto University, 2016), 122, https://doi.org/10.14989/doctor.k19904
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5.3. Our solution: Friends with Food (FWF) We seek to create a non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Friends with Food (FWF) to achieve our objectives. FWF will act as a facilitator within the community to change consumer behavior towards waste sorting, and to reduce food loss.
Fig. 8. Our solution framework The above framework is our proposed solution. We hope to create this system within Rawamangun, where residents will sort their waste and participate in activities centered around a community compost and garden. Firstly, households will bring their organic waste to the community compost, where this waste will be converted to fertiliser. This fertiliser will be used in a community garden to grow vegetables. If there is extra compost produced, this can be sold for additional income. Next, the community will harvest the vegetables from the community garden, and take part in cooking classes that will enhance their appreciation for the food grown. After, they will create food waste again, and this will be once again composted, repeating the cycle. At every step of the system, the activities that households take part in will i) allow them to see the value in waste, ii) heightened their appreciation for food, and iv) gain awareness of their food habits and consumption. Through these activities, households will ultimately
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gain a greater awareness of their lifestyles and how it impacts the environment, and reduce food loss at the home. In addition, food waste going to the landfill will also be reduced as it is turned into compost. In designing this system, we borrowed heavily from the concept of Mottainai , meaning ‘what a waste’ in Japanese. Mottainai reflects how Japanese culture inherently respects 66
and appreciates the things around them, and therefore have a greater consciousness towards food waste. Hence, we wanted to create a system that will encourage households to make good habits that will enhance their understanding of a sustainable lifestyle.
5.4. Our action plan
To implement the project, we describe our action plan in the following table:
Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3
Create and
sustain Community
Compost &
Community Garden
Friends with Food (FWF)
● Establish the system for the initiatives
● Reach out to community leader
● Provide resources (training and seeds for gardening)
Community Leader
● Invite households to sort their waste, attend composting and cooking, visit garden
Households
● Participate in workshop
● Contribute organic waste
● Work with
ward office to allocate land for community compost and garden
Ward Office
● Allocate land for community activities
Stage 1
Establishment of the organization
66 プラネット・リンク, もったいない = Mottainai (東京: マガジンハウス, 2005).
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We start our organization as an NGO, Friends with Food (FWF).
The name suggests that when the food is given by our friends, we will value it more. We also aim to create a platform where friends and neighbors can gather together, and share the vegetables grown from the community garden and their homes.
Fig. 9. Friends with Food’s logo.
The logo comprises of 4 elements: the grain, the hand, and the earth in the black and green. These colours represent the movement of turning the organic waste into valuable commodities. More specifically, in our project, we will turn the food waste into fertilizer through composting. We also included the rice grain to show that rice is a staple among all ASEAN countries. We envision that the solution that we have created can also apply to other countries and we want to include elements that familiar to other ASEAN countries, of which, the grain is the best choice. The earth represents our world, and how we want to preserve it. Whether the world becomes better or worse, it is in our hands.
Reach out to the community leader
As mentioned earlier in this report, our research showed that community leaders play an essential role in the promotion of waste-sorting for a successful CBWM. Hence, the community leader plays an important role in our overall plan. He or she will serve as an effective channel to reach to households in the community. As we have studied about the nature of the community, this is a community that complies with the rules and has a close relationship with the community leader.
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More importantly, in this specific project, we allocate funds to pay a small salary to the community leader to involve the community leader as part of the project movement.
Provide resources
In the first stage, we need to organize meetings with the community leaders as well as household leaders. The purpose of the meeting is i) to have consensus among the community and raise awareness of the urgency of the overall situation of trash and food waste in Jakarta; ii) to introduce the plan of having a community garden, and community composting, and waste sorting at the households.
Stage 2
Work with community leader
One of our key steps will be to sign an MOU with the community leader, to secure their participation and support. We will subsequently work with the community leader to invite households to participate in workshops to teach them more about waste sorting, attend composting activities and cooking classes, and look after the community garden as a community.
Work with local ward office
At the same time, together with the community leader, we also reach out to the local ward office. We hope to work with them so they may allocate land for the community compost and garden.
This plan is possible in Rawamangun as they already have a community park. We hope to utilise this to start the organic waste composting and vegetables garden.
Stage 3
Reach out to households
Through the efforts and outreach of the community leaders, we will engage households to participate in our workshops and activities.
Our main target at the first stage is to involve households to participate in workshop and to contribute organic waste.
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We will organise a campaign that encourages households to sort their waste and contribute their organic waste. To do so, we will host workshops that will show them the specific steps to do so.
5.5. Stakeholders
5.5.1. Identifying key stakeholders
Neighborhood community (Rukun Tetangga/ RT) RT is the smallest neighborhood community that consists of 30 to 50 households. The leader will take a role in supervising and encouraging active participation among households. The households will be our biggest supplier for organic waste. Unilever Indonesia (https://www.unilever.co.id/) Unilever is an FMCG company that has established the system of waste bank in Indonesia. There are more than 6000 waste banks that are sustainable managed by Unilever Indonesia. Unilever will act as our strategic partner to help us develop the community based waste collection system. Kitabisa.com (https://kitabisa.com/) Kitabisa is the biggest crowdfunding platform in Indonesia that successfully developed many emotional campaign to raise funds for social projects. We will collaborate with Kitabisa for the initial funding stage (1 year). IATSS Forum and Alumni Association IATSS Forum and Alumni Association is expected to provide network to stakeholders and access to funding. Alumni Grant Scheme (AGS) AGS is the grant eligible for Australia Awards Alumni to conduct initiatives that create impact in professional field, organisation and community. We expect to get a grant for seed funding amounted to $15,000. USAID USAID offers many opportunities for funding social projects. We expect to get a grant for seed funding from USAID.
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5.5.2. Identifying key stakeholders
Stakeholders How they measure success?
How FWF will benefit them?
What behaviour FWF want to see on them?
Success Indicator
Neighborhood community (RT) 1. Community
leader 2. Households
The community actively participates in the project and changes behaviour to reduce food loss and sort waste
For community leader: Providing financial incentives For Households: Providing places, training and system to sustain the project
Sorting waste into organic and inorganic Buying only what needed
The number of households participating in the project
IATSS forum and IATSS Indonesia Alumni association
This project is sustainable and scalable
Provide publicity, accountable report and sustainable framework of this project
Providing network to other stakeholders and access to fund
The increasing number of participants each year
Kitabisa Kitabisa successfully raises funds
Pay fee Creating campaign to raise funds for this project
The amount of funding
Australia alumni grant scheme (AGS)
AGS funds impactful projects
Provide publicity, accountable report and sustainable framework of the project
Providing grant for this project
The amount of grant
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USAID USAID funds impactful projects
Provide publicity, accountable report and sustainable framework of the project
Providing grant for this project
The amount of grant
Unilever Indonesia
Unilever Indonesia creates an effective system for waste sorting
Provide publicity and accountable report
Providing training on waste sorting
The effectiveness of the system The cost to run the system
5.5.3. Power-Interest Matrix of Stakeholders We conducted further stakeholder analysis utilizing the power-interest matrix. This matrix categorizes key stakeholders based on the power and interest. The power is determined by their influence in the projects, while interest is determined by their levels of participation in the project. After identifying the level of power and interest, the stakeholders can be grouped into 4 categories as follows:
● High power, high interest: These are the most important stakeholders that should be prioritized and kept satisfied with the project’s progress.
● High power, low interest: Because of these stakeholders’ influence in the project, they need to be kept satisfied but there is no need to maintain frequent communication because they don’t show a deep interest in the project.
● Low power, high interest: These stakeholders need to be informed frequently to make sure they don’t experience problems on the project.
● Low power, low interest: These stakeholders only need to be informed periodically.
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Based on those 4 categories, below is the mapping of stakeholder power-interest matrix:
Fig. 10. Power-Interest Matrix of Stakeholders
5.6. Objectives & Targets The logical framework shows step-by-step changes resulted by each activity to finally reach the objectives and targets. Logical framework for the pilot project (< 3 years):
Activities Output Outcome Objective Target
Waste sorting campaign and training
Households understand and see the value in food waste
Households sort waste and bring organic waste to be composted
Reduced organic waste in community
90% of the households in 10 communities in Jakarta participate
Community composting
Households participate in composting training and
Households utilize organic waste to do the
Reduced organic waste in community
80% of the households in 10 communities in Jakarta
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understand how food waste becomes fertilizer
composting participate
Community gardening
Households participate in gardening training
Households do the gardening
Reduced food loss
70% of the households in 10 communities in Jakarta participate
Community cooking
Households participate in cooking activities using ingredients from community gardening
Households appreciate the value of food
Reduced food loss
70% of the households in 10 communities in Jakarta participate
To provide a clear overview of how this project could be scaled up throughout Indonesia, the overall roadmap is created as follows. Roadmap of the project:
SHORT TERM (<3 Years)
MID-TERM (3-5 Years)
LONG-TERM (> 5 Years)
● Engage the stakeholders
● Seek for grants
● Set up the system, resources and NGO license
● Implement the project in 10 communities in Jakarta.
● Collaborate with NGOs and companies
● Collaborate with media for greater publicity
● Implement the project in 100 communities
● Collaborate with government to integrate this into their roadmap
● Scale up throughout Indonesia (10 provinces, 1000 communities)
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5.7. Risks and Mitigations
Each activity has its own risks which may inhibit the desirable objectives. Following is the mapping of risks and mitigation plan for each activity.
Risk Mitigation
Low participation and motivation: 1. Community may not see the
value of waste, and how they may benefit in the project.
2. Community may think that waste management should be more of government’s responsibilities
1. Involving community leader to enforce participation.
2. Involving experts to design the campaign that is appealing to the community
3. Conducting in-depth interview with the community to design effective approaches
Decreasing motivation and disengagement of community in the long term
Creating seasonal competitions such as the most beautiful community garden and the cleanest community.
Lack of cooperation from stakeholders and community leader
1. Starting the project in areas where the community leaders have close relationships with FWF members
2. Conducting in-depth interviews with community leaders to identify their willingness and interests
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6. Implementation Plan
The project will be executed in several phases. FWF will conduct a site visit for further understanding of the fabric of the Rawamangun community. The project will be funded through several sources. This chapter will further explain about the detailed plan and the breakdown for each project proposal. The projects will be divided into three major phases, which are the awareness phase, development phase, and operation phase. Each phase of the project will start with planning, execution monitoring, and improvement.
6.1. Awareness Phase: Campaign on waste sorting and composting
Implementation methods
The awareness campaign will start with simple waste sorting and composting activities with participation by the households. The sorting process focuses on segregating the waste into organic and inorganic waste. The campaign will be conducted through the arisan social gathering platform. The campaign aims to instill the habit of waste sorting to the housewives and eventually spreads the habit to the households in Rawamangun. Among the contents of the campaign is to teach the housewives on the techniques of composting. The composting process can only be done after they manage to sort their waste into organic and inorganic waste. The learning process is expected to be conducted in community based learning through hands on activities.
The details of the campaign are detailed below:
Activity Purpose Content Desired Outcome
Campaign on waste sorting
● To guide community people on waste-sorting at home so that they can sort their waste into organic and in-organic waste.
● Develop manual of waste sorting for community;
● Provide trash bin for households to separate their waste;
● Increase capacity of the community. After participating in the workshop, they will be able to successfully sort their waste at home.
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● When sorting the trash, people will start to be more aware of how much trash they produce and how much food is loss.
● Follow up with workshop for community to share the joy of sorting and
● Share reflection of awareness of trash and food waste.
● 90% of heads of households in the community will participate in the workshop, and 80% of participants will actually do sorting at home.
Campaign on organic waste composting
● To guide community people on waste composting at home so that they can sort their waste into organic and in-organic waste.
● Develop manual of waste composting for community;
● Provide trash bin for households to do their home composting
● Share reflection of awareness of organic waste composting.
● Increase capacity of the community. After participating in the workshop, they will be able to successfully do home composting.
● 90% of heads of households in the community will participate in the workshop, and 70% of participants will actually do composting at home.
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6.2. Development Phase: “Mottainai” learning module and training for capacity building
Implementation methods
The development phase consists of two major activities. First, a learning module will be developed based on the concept of “Mottainai”. The module will be designed to assimilate to the Indonesian context. The objective of this module is to instill good moral values in consumption behaviour. The module will later be used to train the community leader to understand the values behind the “Mottainai”.
Secondly, FWF will train the community leaders for better understanding about waste management through waste sorting and organic waste composting. The training will be conducted to prepare the community before the actual project begins.
The details of “Mottainai” learning module:
Concept Target Activities Impact
Module 1 Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Respect.
Community Leader
● Site visit to land fill of Bantar Gebang
● Cultural exchange through community visit to Japan
● Raising the awareness through life action activities
● Hands on experience on Japanese culture of Motttainai.
Module 2
Home Recycling
Households ● Training on how to do Recycle at home with old clothes and used paper
● Training on how to do Recycle at home with
● Households members understand about the idea of recycling and seeing value in things that otherwise they will
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Food: turning food into fertilizer
throw away
Module 3
Waste sorting manual
Reduce consumption
Domestic Helper
● Develop manual for waste sorting, customize in the Indonesia context
● Invite experts to “train the trainer” training. Trainee will be community leaders so that they can later train household members and domestic helpers to sort home waste
● Local people will start sorting their waste at home.
● Local people will be more aware of how much waste they produce everyday when they do sorting
● In the long term, local people will be more aware of how much food waste they produce and then hopefully they will reduce consumption in food.
Implementation methods
The training will be done through hands on community activities and lectures.
6.3. Operation Phase: Community Gardening, Community Composting and Community Cooking
The operation phase consists of three community projects which are the community composting, gardening, and cooking. The community driven project aims to create community interest as the first platform to connect the society. Through community
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projects, we expect to see more participation and interest among the community members. It is also to create a sense of belonging within the community.
The details of the project are as below.
Activity Purpose Content Desired Outcome
Community garden
The community garden serves as a platform for local people to gather, and to foster community interest and bonding.
● Provide seeds to start community garden
● Mobilize volunteers to plant and look after the community garden
● Having a beautiful garden that people can be proud of.
● Mobilize 70% residents in the community to join the community gardening activities.
Community cooking
● To bring back the culture of visiting neighbor’s house.
● To see the value in food so that there is less food loss.
● Raise awareness on waste production.
● During the arisan meeting, people gather to cook the vegetables grown from the community garden.
● Become a monthly event that the community enjoys together
● Raise their awareness of the value of food and food waste
● Attract around 100 participants
● Attract many other communities to join the movement
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Community composting
The community composting center serves as a platform for local people to gather, to do the composting process. The organic composed will be turned into fertilizer for community garden.
● Inspire and encourage people to do communal composting so that there will be fertilizer for the community garden.
● Raise community awareness on the value of food waste that can be turned into valuable organic fertilizer.
● Attract around 100 participants
● Attract many other communities to join the movement
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7. Budget The following table explains our projected expense for the first three years.
Expense Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Total Cost
Operation Cost
Labor Cost $ 18,000 $ 18,000 $ 18,000 $ 54,000
Electricity Cost $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 3,600
Water Cost $ 240 $ 240 $ 240 $ 720
Transportation Cost $ 9,600 $ 9,600 $ 9,600 $ 28,800
Office supply $ 3,000 $ 3,000 $ 3,000 $ 9,000
Marketing/ PR Cost $ 2,400 $ 2,400 $ 2,400 $ 7,200
Communication Cost $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 3,600
Campaign Cost (training, office rental, and other activities)
$ 14,400 $ 14,400 $ 14,400 $ 43,200
Miscellaneous $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 3,600
Equipment $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 1,200 $ 3,600
Total Expense $ 52,440 $ 52,440 $ 52,440 $ 157,320
Our projected expenses above will cover operating and other costs. We do not
have fixed assets as the community facilitator. For the first year, we are expected to spend $52,440, and the total spending for three years will be $157,320 in total. Labor, transport, and campaign costs account for $42,000, about 80% of total operation costs. The campaign costs includes expenses to hire a trainer to host workshops and design a curriculum that will teach composting, mottainai, cooking, and facilitate garden activities as well. We will be able to rent an office for free as the co-founder of FWF will provide her garage for the beginning of the project. We do not have revenue. We hope to support our operation costs with grants and financial support form our identified stakeholders such as IATSS Forum, Australia Awards, Kitabisa, and USAID.
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8. Conclusion Waste management system is a critical issue affecting millions of lives, not only in Jakarta but also those around Bantar Gerbang. The current mitigation is unable to cope with the rapid increase in waste. Bantar Gerbang is predicted to exceed its capacity in 2021. Looking for another landfill will just be another temporary solution because it is not solving the root problem, which is overconsumption behavior. Friends with Food (FWF) is a project that attempts to tackle the problems addressed by Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) pillar number 12, ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns. Inspired by ‘Mottainai”, a Japanese philosophy that conveys a sense of regret over waste, FWF attempts to heighten the level of appreciation towards things and food by changing consumer behaviour to sort their waste and reduce food loss. The project comprises of 4 core activities namely sorting the waste, community gardening, community composting and community cooking. To ensure sustainability, this project incorporates social, environmental and economic aspects equally and relies its operation heavily on the community with a tight supervision from the community leader. The scalability of this project would be materialized through meticulous planning on the roadmap and financial aspects. In the long term, a strong support from the government and media is critical to escalate the impact of this project throughout the nation.
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9. Annex 9.1. Annex 1 - Project Design Matrix
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9.2. Annex 2 - Plan of Operation
SHORT TERM (<3 Years)
MID-TERM (3-5 Years)
LONG-TERM (> 5 Years)
● Engage with stakeholders
● Seek for grants
● Set up the system, resources and NGO license
● Implement the project in 10 communities in Jakarta.
● Collaborate with NGOs and companies
● Collaborate with media for greater publicity
● Implement the project in 100 communities
● Collaborate with government to integrate this into their roadmap
● Scale up throughout Indonesia (10 provinces, 1000 communities)
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