Clean up Banyuwangi

[Sikander]

Dear Friends,
I am an expat living in various places. One of them is Banyuwangi. I have contacts and a business plan to make Banyuwangi more clean. This involves also local gouvernement. I want to ask who wants to join in. I am not always around and the Indonesian people speak to little English, which is needed for this venture. So I am looking for somebody who speaks both languages good and wants a new challenge. Let me know when you are interested, so we can meet.
Henk

 

[Puspawarna]

I'm sure we'd all like to see every area of Indonesia made cleaner, but you need to tell us more if you want to attract any interest.

Are you talking about solid waste recycling, for example through the "waste banks" that the Ministry of Environment has promoted?

 

[waarmstrong]

A venture destined for the compost heap.

 

[Bowsaw]

Im in and of Bwi. Sedikit bahasa dan basa jawa. Kepala kampung tried to educate the kampung and set up an area for rubbish and communal burning etc. Dismal failure. Beach in front of kampung is moderately rubbish strewn. This is Solong/Klatak. How is the program going to alter lifetime habits? Be great to see it happen.

 

[Anglian]

A venture destined for the compost heap.

I fear you are correct Warmie, any spare bit of land round us is used for illegal rubbish dumping, after many years and attempts some, not all residents are using dust bins which are emptied daily, there just doesn't seem to be any pride, if your living in Balikpapan just look over the sea wall and see all the shite that's been thrown out lining along the wall, no pride at all, the drains along the main road at Pondok Cabe airport haven been cleaned out for 14 years, ah well that's Indonesia

 

[macvert]

Not only pride or lack of it involved but there also seems to be a lack of awareness about the vermin attracted to rubbish & the disease it can lead to, you'd think there would be some kind of natural awareness because it seems obvious but they just seem oblivious & will dump rubbish right outside their house or across the road if feeling like a walk.
We know a woman "The Rat Lady of Kupang" who leaves food for rats with her logic being that they will have enough & not touch other food, there's no thought of them breeding.

 

[kimdub]

I am convinced that most Indonesians just don't see the garbage. It just doesn't register in the brain. In my area, we live inside a park/lake complex and every day work gangs sweep the streets of leaves. So any garbage is just swept to the side of the road. Never picked up. Then, they come along with the weed whackers to trim the grass and just whack all the garbage into a thousand pieces that might remain there forever.

Drainage ditches are simply the garbage disposal for the local residents. We built a concrete box with lid to store the garbage for pickup (which we had to arrange) and told the neighbor they were invited to use it also. Never used it to my knowledge, easier to just throw it in the ditch than walk 10 seconds and open the lid.

 

[Anglian]

I forgot to mention that Kimdub, I made the point that others could use my dustbin, nothing, the prefer to throw it on the empty plot of land nearby