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Indonesia’s Greater Jakarta grapples with waste crisis amid mounting rubbish and landfill leaks
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Repeated avalanches of garbage have occurred at the Bantar Gebang landfill in the past few months.
ST PHOTO: WAHYUDI SOERIAATMADJA
JAKARTA – Indonesia’s Greater Jakarta continues to grapple with a waste crisis, with Jakarta and neighbouring Depok becoming the latest to report landfill leaks and collapses or overflowing of rubbish from disposal sites, prompting complaints from people living near the facilities over unmanaged waste.
Over the past few weeks, tonnes of garbage have been piling up at a dump site owned by the capital’s largest wholesale market, Kramat Jati, in East Jakarta.
