3km of Trash Covers Jakarta Mangrove Forest

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Jakarta Regional Government deployed 200 combined personnel of North Jakarta and Thousand Islands Regional Environment Office to clean the trash in Muara Angke Mangroves Forest on Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The personnel cleaned around 50 cubic meters of trash manually with baskets or with amphibious excavators. Currently, the process is still ongoing.

"It will take three days to clean all of it," said M.Chusaeri, the Head of Implementing Officer at the North Jakarta Environment Office as quoted by Antara, on Thursday, July 13, 2023. Meaning, the cleaning activity is projected to be done tomorrow, Friday, July 14, 2023.

According to Chusaeri, the three-day estimation is necessitated by the length of the trash pile reaching 2km to 3km, stretched from Kaliadem to Ecomarine Tourism Mangrove Muara Angke. The trash pile came from 12 different river flows in Jakarta which disembogue in the sea. "It all came from the sea. The residents do not throw their trash in the sea since there are garbage disposal sites already," said Chusaeri.

Chusaeri hoped that Jakartans could reduce their plastic usage since the trash pile was dominated by plastic waste at around 60% to 80%. After being lifted, the trash pile is carried to Bantar Gebang Landfill, Bekasi, West Java. "We have prepared six small tipper trucks, one big tipper truck, and two pickups. But we used three big tipper trucks today," said Chusaeri.

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