Garbage is more frequently associated with urban problems, such as flood and congestion. This assumption will narrow the area of waste management in this country.

With a low awareness in residents of sorting and processing garbage, the administrators of garbage banks in Magelang City, Central Java, are never tire of fighting.

Kadirun’s journey in waste management began in 2016, when it was common for the people in his hamlet to dump their garbage into the river. He won many people over as he turned plastic waste into useful items.

Unwilling to see plastic waste pollute the environment in the Borobudur area, Hadi Prayitno, 45, turns it into various handicrafts of economic value.

Climbing Mt. Kerinci was the toughest journey this year for Heri Gunawan. Not because of the steep terrain leading to the peak but because of trash scattered along the hiking trail. The beauty of the natural landscape of the highest volcano in Indonesia seems to be covered with garbage.