TEMPO.CO, Bekasi - Jakarta Deputy Governor Sandiaga Uno intends to turn the Bantargebang landfill in Bekasi into an educational attraction.

“There is a huge potential [for it to become an attraction],” said Sandiaga at the Bantargebang landfill on Friday, March 9.

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According to Sandiaga, several developed countries are able to transform waste into a source of income when it is processed and managed well.

“Bantargebang can be managed better in the future,” said Sandiaga Uno who ran five kilometers to the landfill site from the Bantargebang police station.

Bantargebang is currently considered as a traditional sanitary landfill which depends on its waste to completely degrade biologically within a 110-hectare land space. The land owned by the Jakarta administration is predicted to only survive until 2023 if things run as it is.

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Head of the landfill’s Technical Unit from Jakarta’s department of hygiene and environment Asep Kuswanto said the Jakarta administration is not worried about the maximum lifespan of the landfill because the government plans to establish an intermediate treatment facility (ITF). One of the ITF’s will be located in Sunter, North Jakarta.

“When the ITF is done, the wastes will no longer be thrown at Bantargebang,” said Asep.

Adi Warsono