Nugraheni - Mokoginta – Poerbonegoro | 2013 1 Community-based Solid Waste Management: the Case of Bank Sampah 1 Siwi Nugraheni, Ivantia S. Mokoginta, Anna F. Poerbonegoro Department of Economics and Development Studies, Parahyangan Catholic University Abstract Solid waste has been a problem in Indonesia, particularly in urban areas. This encouraged the establishment of Bank Sampah, a community-based waste management in many areas of Indonesia. Bank Sampah is expected to reduce solid waste up to 50%. This study investigates the interaction of social, ecological aŶd political aspects iŶ the case of BaŶk “aŵpah. UsiŶg Ostroŵ’s ŵulti -tier framework of analysis, the study compares and contrasts several Bank Sampah in Bandung to identify factors determining the sustainability of Bank Sampah. Keywords: solid waste management, Bank Sampah, Common Property Resource, collective action. I. Background Economic activities generate waste. Statistical data showed that the volume of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Indonesia was 176,000 tonnes per day, collected from households (56%), traditional markets (28%), commercials (10%) and others (6%) (Ministry of Environment, 2010). In some areas such as Bandung municipality, waste has become a problem. The municipality produced approximately 1,500 tonnes per day (Minister of Environment in Antara, 2013). This situation has encouraged the establishment of Bank Sampah [1] , a community group that manages solid waste in many neighborhood areas in Indonesia. The management involves separating, collecting and recycling solid waste for the purpose of promoting cleaner and healthier environment for communities. The aim of this research is to identify the interaction of social, ecological and political aspeĐts pƌoposed iŶ the Ostƌoŵ’s ŵulti-tier framework of analysis in the case of Bank Sampah. This study compared and contrasted several Bank Sampah organizations selected based on their sustainability. It used institutional framework developed by among others Olson (1965), North (1991), and particularly Ostrom (1990;2007). Information was collected from several Bank Sampah in Kota Bandung and Kabupaten Bantul. Data were collected by using interview. II. Framework of Analysis The activities of Bank Sampah are collecting organic and inorganic solid waste from communities and sell them to recycling organizations that produce output by using the wastes as raw materials (most groups are still work around inorganic waste). The latter sells 1 Paper presented at the 23 rd Pacific Conference of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI) & the 4 th Indonesian Regional Science Association (IRSA) Institute, in Bandung, 2 – 4 July 2013.