Critical Review – 25423033 Muhammad Afif Hidayat

Critical Review :

Article : Towards Sustainable Ambon Bay: Evaluation of Solid Waste Management in Ambon City

Overall, the main idea that’s talked in the article already pictured a good practice of solid waste
management. This can be looked at how the involved stakeholders manage the solid waste, the
availability of the infrastructure already built and used as their purposes. A little note from this article
shows that it needs improvement on the quantity and the quality of the infrastructure such as the
garbage truck,personnel, etc. This pictures a same condition all around Indonesia, the infrastructure is
already built but it is not enough to contain and manage all the waste the city produced. In other words,
the improvement from the stakeholders stucked at the time it finish the construction of the system.
This happened because the main stakeholders (Government) does not have the financing ability to
improve. Other things that seems kinda stuck is the system improvement from the national
government. There are none concept that introduced to make the management system more optimum.
There are a lot of best practices to looked at, the basic one we need in Indonesia is the 3R
(Reduce,Reuse,Recycle) behaviour. Another one can be introduce is the system to separate the type of
solid waste. Other countries such as Germany and Japan may become one of the best practices. This
concept may look a little basic, but it works to manage more quantity of solid waste in the landfill also
can be a simple improvement on how to optimize the system we currently used. This kinda hilarious,
while many research and works already done in the field of solid waste compare to other basic
infrastructure (water and wastewater system) but the government show signs of ignorance towards
solid waste and focusing on other things rather than improvement of basic infrastructure. Other things
that is interesting, solid waste domain in national government is held by 3 ministry, public housing,
environment, maritime affairs and fisheries. The fact that it helds by 3 ministry and all of them has
different planning and regulation on solid waste, this can be damaging to local authorities since they
are the main actor of the solid waste management. The damage can be done in such way but the main
one that always become a problem is the confusement on how to combine, connect, and conduct local
regulation.

Reference :

Maryati, S., Miharja, M., Iscahyono, A. F., Arsallia, S., & Humaira, A. S. (2017). Towards Sustainable
Ambon Bay: Evaluation of Solid Waste Management in Ambon City. IOP Conference Series: Earth and
Environmental Science, 79, 012007. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/79/1/012007