Community-based waste management: Best practice for waste management in Panggungharjo Village, Sewon District, Bantul Regency

Abstract

Through Village Regulation (Perdes) Number 7 of 2016 which regulates guidelines for waste management, domestic waste management (household waste) which has been pioneered by Pemdes Panggungharjo since 2013 found a way to manage waste independently. Until 2019, Panggungharjo Village had 30 waste banks with a total of 1,800 customers who were residents of the village. Waste management is handled directly by BUMDES Panggung Lestari through Unit Usaha Kupas, one of the village economic institutions under the auspices of the Panggungharjo Village Government, which has so far focused on dealing with villagers’ waste problems. In terms of community-based waste management, the Panggungharjo Village Government has created a roadmap for waste management with the active role of the community in synergy and collaboration with BUMDES Panggung Lestari which is regulated in the Village Regulation. Communities as waste producers are required every day to sort waste independently by separating residual waste, organic waste, and selling value waste. In the early days of waste management, Panggung Lestari collaborated with Pegadaian which had a Gold Savings product. The simple principle is that the community deposits waste that has a selling value and then converts it into a rupiah value with the gold savings. There is a minimum limit for waste deposits and the time period for collecting the savings. Interesting developments in the journey of managing waste in this span of time have created a business model that can be used as a reference for policy formulation from the village to the district level, where a plenary collaborative waste management governance design approach based on value chain analysis becomes a bridge in the realm of waste management as one of the public services where the community also has the same obligations regarding problems, on the other hand management based on value chain analysis has economic value where the relationship between the management of unit usaha Kupas and residents can be in the form of user-consumers or partners who jointly think about handling domestic waste. Until now, the waste management business model in the Panggungharjo Urban Village illustrates how the waste management journey is built in stages and has relevance to the needs of waste management at different scales in terms of waste generation capacity, technology, number of customers, and future development plans. The latest development at Panggung Lestari is that it is now able to process domestic waste (household waste) into a variety of products including organic fertilizers and others, in addition to a waste bank with a selling value of waste that is still ongoing. Carrying the spirit of “Starting from the residents, ending in the village”, Panggung Lestari is currently serious about developing its integrated waste management capacity.