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Bali Drowning in Rubbish After Landfill Closed
Local officials are allowing temporary dumping at Suwung until July as sanitation workers protest and waste piles up across the island.
- Bali's local government authorized limited waste disposal at the Suwung landfill until the end of July, addressing garbage accumulation after authorities closed the site to organic waste in April.
- Then-Environment minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq recently declared a waste management emergency across Indonesia, as authorities enforce a national ban on open landfills despite fewer than a third of the country's 485 sites having shuttered since 2013.
- Business owner Yuvita Anggi Prinanda pays private companies to remove trash from her stall to avoid losing customers, contributing to the island's estimated 3,400 tons of daily garbage.
- Sanitation workers protested at the governor's office on April 16, while residents face up to three months' jail time and a 50-million rupiah fine for illegal dumping, according to I Dewa Nyoman Rai Dharmadi.
- The government aims to break ground on waste-to-energy projects in June, though plants could take years to come online, while Nur Azizah of Gadjah Mada University argues mass composting campaigns are the only long-term solution.
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