New Year's Eve Fill Jakarta with Trash, 3,180 Cleaning Workers Deployed to Clean Up
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3 January 2023 01:25 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Welcoming the New Year 2023 was enjoyable for many people in Jakarta by holding the New Year's Eve Festival at various locations.
To enliven New Year's Eve, the festivals were held in various cities or districts in six locations. Each festival filled with artistic entertainment has band performances from several artists and art performances organized by the Jakarta Tourism and Creative Economy Agency (Disparekraf).
Waste Volume Overflowed
However, the festivities celebrating the 2023 New Year in Jakarta resulted in an increasing volume of waste.
As reported by Antara, the total waste generated on New Year's Eve reached 74 tons from several locations in the five administrative areas of Jakarta. Garbage was collected from various crowded locations in the community.
The Jakarta Environment Agency deployed 3,180 cleaning task force personnel on New Year's Eve 2023.
The cleaning locations include Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII) in East Jakarta, Thamrin 10 Central Jakarta, and Jalan Thamrin-Sudirman, Central Jakarta.
To support cleaning facilities, the Environment Service deployed 14 units of garbage trucks, 24 units of automatic road sweepers, 17 special buses for toilets, and scattered hundreds of trash bins in the busiest locations.
Starting at 00:30 on January 1, 2023, other individual service providers (PJLP) officers start cleaning on waste from the New Year's Eve celebration until after dawn at 05:00 WIB.
MALINI l IMAJI LASAHIDO
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