SINTESA: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik Volume 8, Nomor 1, Maret 2017; pp. 27–36 https://ejournal.warmadewa.ac.id/index.php/sintesa ISSN Online: 2615-305X Dipublikasi: 30 Maret 2017 The Role of Community Participation-Based Waste Bank in Waste Management in Denpasar City I Gusti Ayu Winda Purnama Astuti, Ketut Sri Swatiningsih and I Wayan Mirta Faculty of Social and Political Science, Universitas Warmadewa, Denpasar, Bali - Indonesia mirta@warmadewa.ac.id How to cite (in APA style): Astuti, I, G, A, W, P., Swatiningsih, K, S., Mirta, I, W. (2017). The Role of Community Participation-Based Waste Bank in Waste Manage- ment in Denpasar City. SINTESA: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik. 8(1), pp.27-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.22225/sintesa.8.1.1050.27-36 Abstract Speaking of garbage is a serious matter since it has become a classic problem in every city in Indonesia, including in Denpasar City. Garbage produced per day in Denpasar City is ± 4000m³, which 70% is of the composition of organic waste and the rest is inorganic, where 11% of plastic waste is difficult to decompose by nature. The issue of waste in the city of Denpasar is not only a matter of collecting, separating the types of waste and recycling, but also of how to arouse public awareness. One of the efforts made by the government in overcoming and managing the waste problem is issuing of Law Number 18 year 2008 on Waste Management and supplemented by Government Regulation Number 81 year 2012 on Household Solid Waste and Household -like Solid Waste Management. To implement both thses laws and regulations, especially on household waste management, the Ministry of Environment then issued the Regulation No. 13/2012 on Guidelines for Implementing Reduce, Reuse, Recycle through Waste Bank. Through Waste Bank, communities are demanded to take responsibility for the waste they produce by asking them to sort the organic waste and inorganic in their respective homes and deliver it to the waste bank. The results indicate that the application of 3R based on community participation, either directly or indirectly, in waste management in Denpasar City has been well in accordance with the principle of waste bank itself. Community participation-based waste bank plays a substantial role in the management of waste in accordance with the principle of waste bank itself. Notwithstanding, supporting facilities and infrastructures in the waste management in the city are still insufficient. Hence, government needs to action of regularly socializing about waste management to the community. Keywords: Community participation; garbage, waste bank, waste management, SINTESA: Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik CC-BY-SA 4.0 License Page 27 I. INTRODUCTION The issue of waste is a serious problem for humankind especially in urban areas. For people in rural areas, the waste can still be cultivated and used for various purposes, including being used as fertilizer for agricultural land. Unlike in rural areas, in urban conditions the opposite is true. Garbage, besides being considered a source of disease, also pollutes the environment with a stinging odor. Speaking of rubbish is not something questionable because the rubbish itself has become a classical problem in every city in Indonesia, not least in the city of Denpasar. Denpasar - which has now developed into a metropolitan city and holds the status of the capital city of Bali Province - has a very onerous onus. It is confirmed, after Denpasar became a big city, that more problems will rise, especially related to waste. First, the problems that will be faced are including urban spatial planning which is designed to deal with modernization, population growth, and the famous image of Bali tourism. Secondly, another problem that has the potential to trigger the encumbrance of the government is population, both urbanization and the abundance of transmigration residents from other regions along with its rules of regulation which have always been the main social problems of big cities. Third, other things include environmental problems that are often encountered, such as garbage, air quality and decent water sources for life, fuel, electricity and decent housing needs. Of the three severe problems contended in the city of Denpasar there is one that is almost the same with those that are usually found in all major cities, namely garbage. Handling the garbage problem in a big city is a classic and complicated problem. A "classy" big city is a city that is capable of handling waste properly and is friendly to the environment. Conversely, a city that is said to be "failed" is a city that cannot handle waste and allows some of its important public space to become trash bins. Actually, Denpasar is one of the big cities in Indonesia which is full of community complexity and modernization. Unfortunately, it does not have a fairly clean environment. The garbage produced brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Ejournal Universitas Warmadewa