The Effectiveness of Health-Community-Based Waste Management in Yogyakarta

Surahma Asti Mulasari,Noeng Muhadjir,Adi Heru Husodo

doi:10.15294/komunitas.v8i1.4726

Abstract

The people’s understanding of waste affects their attitudes and modes in waste management. The attitudes towards health-community-based waste management has their positive impact i.e. improving environmental and community health and in the end promoting community’s economy. This research aimed at understanding the effectiveness of health-community-based waste management in Yogyakarta indicated by the residents’ knowledge of waste, attitude, behavior, and the existence of desease vector and economical condition. This was a social action research, which applied a quantitative method. The research was conducted through implementing waste management based on community health perception. The data-collecting technique involved observation participant technique. There was a significant difference between people’s knowledge on waste management before and after waste management counselling with p value 0.000 0.05. There was a significant difference between the people’s attitude before and after waste management counselling with p value 0.021 0.05. There was a significant difference between the people’s behavior before and after waste management counselling with 0.033 0.05. There was a significant difference between the density of fly population before and after waste management counselling with p value 0.013 0.05. The average of 30 participants’ income earned from garbage is IDR 55.952.83 quarterly or IDR 18.650.61 (IDR 13.450.00 = 1 US$). The conclusion is knowledge, attitude, behavior indicators and vector density improved after the training of health-communicty based waste management.

Highlights

Environmental health problems in Indonesia, especially in big cities involve urbanization, waste disposal, clean water supply, air pollution, disposal of industrial and household waste, natural disaster and refuge, and urban planning and government policy (Chandra 2007)
Community’s perception, attitude, behavior in household waste management can be seen in the following table 1
The participants’perception on household waste management after training indicated that 21 participants’ perception (70%) was good and 9 participants (30%) was bad

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Introduction

Environmental health problems in Indonesia, especially in big cities involve urbanization, waste disposal, clean water supply, air pollution, disposal of industrial and household waste, natural disaster and refuge, and urban planning and government policy (Chandra 2007). Waste is one of environmental health problems. The government policy on waste management needs community involvement (Al-Khatib 2007; Bystrzejewska-Piotrowska 2009; Ekvall 2007). A good government policy should consider many aspecs such as culture, different social. The people living around waste disposal place will experience aesthetical inconvenience and strong scent of air pollution. The waste decomposition produces leachate and gas whose composition depends of the condition of the waste. Leachate pollutes ground water and reduces its quality, while

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