Garbage management is still the issue that is not upscale in a number of regions in Indonesia. National Waste Management Information System Data (SIPSN) Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) on 2022 mentions the number of national waste plantations reached 21.1 million tons. From the total production of national trash, as much as 65,71 percent or 13.9 million tons can be managed, while the remaining 34,29 percent or 7,2 million tons have not been managed properly.
Therefore, Dindin Komarudin (50) a resident of Tanjung Priok, Jakarta, strives to contribute to the management of waste in Indonesia through the Creative Mandiri Natural Foundation (Kumala). The self-determined foundation since 2008 it moves to recycle some types of waste, such as plastic, paper, and wood through ex empowerment of street children and community.
On 2011 the Kumala Foundation road in managing the junk getting brighter after Dindin met one of the officials of PT Pertamina Hulu Energy Offshore North West Java (PHE ONWJ) in a radio event. The meeting essay PHE ONWJ collaborates with Yayasan Kumala as a binaan partner and lasts up to 2023.
Two experiencing streets dismantling the payload of waste cardboard customer deposits in Kumala Foundation offices in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Dua ex street children transport recycled plastic bottles in the Kumala Foundation Waste Bank, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Starting from providing waste paper, wooden pallets, and other wastes as recycled craft materials, extended collaboration with PHE ONWJ regularly ordering the results of recycling crafts from Kumala Foundation. The fruit of the former child's work was ordered as a PHE ONWJ souvenir.
The collaboration between PHE ONWJ and Kumala Foundation continues to grow through waste bank programs. The Garbage Bank that Yayasan Kumala runs its flexible properties in operation because its customers are free to deposit the trash without minimum amount and can take the tube at any time there is urgent purposes.
“They can also take a shot in the cooperative of Kumala Foundation. Replace the balance in the bank’s savings will be cut,” said Dindin.
The founder of Kumala Dindin Komarudin Foundation poses among plastic bottle bin piles in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Petugas PT Pertamina Hulu Energy Offshore North West Java (PHE ONWJ) along the Bank of Garbage Foundation Kumala weighs plastic waste deposited by customers through the Creative Car Service of Kumala Child in Kalibaru, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
In addition, through this waste bank program Yayasan Kumala and PHE ONWJ also empowers the number of people in North Jakarta. In running its operations, Kumala Foundation’s trash bank conducts ball pickling services with Kumala Creative Cars to reach customers to villages, such as Kalibaru, Red Land, Badak Rawa, Swasembada, and Kebon Bawang.
After a few years involved the ex-child of the street as a driving in waste management, Yayasan Kumala and PHE ONWJ also made them as a trainer about waste recycling in a number of regions in Indonesia. One of which is routinely carried out is training to facilitated people in Cileunyi, Bandung Regency, West Java.
Training by experiencing this street is part of the 5R++ program of Kumala Foundation, which is reduced (reducing), reuse (reuse), recycle (recycle), resale (sell back), and reshare (return).
The Bank of Garbage Kumala serves customers who exchange their tubes into a wave at Bank Garbage Yayasan Kumala, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Petugas PT Pertamina Hulu Energy Offshore North West Java (PHE ONWJ) delivers used paper piles to ex street children further processed into recycled craft products in Kumala Foundation Waste Bank, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Dindin encourages the ex-child of the street to not be limited as an object, but also the subjects involved in the junk management campaign. “What is studied at Kumala Foundation they also taught back to others,” said Dindin. With so, the spirit of managing waste is better to become able to be transmitted to the wider community in Indonesia.
Photo and Text: Aditya Pradana Putra
The ex-child of streets makes the craft recycling waste paper in the Waste Bank of Kumala Foundation, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
The ex-child of streets makes the craft recycling waste paper in the Waste Bank of Kumala Foundation, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Dua ex street children make paper waste recycling crafts at the Bank Garbage Yayasan Kumala, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
The visitor observes the results of waste recycling crafts in the Bank Garbage Yayasan Kumala, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
The visitor observes the results of waste recycling crafts in the Bank Garbage Yayasan Kumala, Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
The ex-kid street cleans the wall decoration of its production in Kumala Foundation office in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
The number of experiencing junk banks posing among garbage sacks in Kumala Foundation offices in Tanjung Priok, Jakarta.
Editor: Danika Wahyu
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