Smart and Sustainable Model for Waste Management System in Indonesian Urban Growing Cities

Abstract

Indonesia is experiencing huge waste issues, especially in urban and growing cities including Jakarta, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Semarang and Magelang. National and local governments have to deal with the increase of municipal waste in an insufficient waste management system. Lack of human and technological capacities on waste management, reduced awareness of waste reduction, minimum practices of recycling, lack implementation of circular economy strategies and less cooperation among private, community and government are the challenges. There is an urgent need to provide an effective strategic waste management system which in-corporate government, private sectors and society to reduce economic, social, environmental and health issues. Information Communication Technology has been convinced to effectively improve the implementation of sustainable and smart waste management in developed countries. This research presents a model of the circular economy toward sustainable and smart waste management system for Indonesian municipal waste. The model integrates waste management technology and the Internet of Things into a smart, sustainable and adaptive waste management mechanism and data integration, which has a target to improve municipal solid waste and to increase resource efficiency through data integration. The research scope covers waste management supply chain starting from the collection, separation, production, and treatment processes of organic and non-organic waste. In-depth literature review, direct observation through a questionnaire, focus group discussion and expert sharing, a comparative study on Australia best practices, comprehensive analysis on the research results and proposed model are presented based on a one-year research project in 2018. The future model implementation is expected to contribute to Government strategy, regulation and policy on better waste management at the national level.

Keywords: Waste Management, IoT, Circular Economy, smart, sustainable