INDONESIA: Alliance To End Plastic Waste Launches $29m Bersih Indonesia Program in Malang

Posted by Asia Views | May 30, 2022 | 0 |

JakartaGlobe-May 23

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste and the Government of Malang District, alongside with Coordinating Ministry for Maritime & Investment Affairs, launched the Bersih Indonesia program at Malang City Hall in East Java in March. This program aims to provide integrated waste management services for 2.6 million people by 2025.

The Bersih Indonesia team will work closely with local governments to establish household-level waste management services and sorting, processing, and recycling facilities for Malang city residents. The government has allocated land to build five Integrated Waste Processing Sites (TPST) and four Waste Transit Stations (SPA), and construction is scheduled to begin in mid-2022. In preparation for the new system, community engagement and school education programs will be started next year to help strengthen local communities’ waste management and recycling literacy. The TPST and SPA will also be built at the Talangagung Tourism Educational Landfill. Currently, Talangagung Landfill has been distributed 400 connections of bio-methane gas 24 hours non-stop for free to residents’ homes. It is hoped that in the future, when this program is fully operational, the system built by the Bersih Indonesia program can divert more than 50,000 tons of plastic waste annually, with a recycling rate of more than 60 percent. This system is expected to create 3,000 new jobs. Phase One of Clean Indonesia will be developed at the cost of $29 million and fully funded by the Alliance. Read more at: https://jakartaglobe.id/vision/alliance-to-end-plastic-waste-launches-29m-bersih-indonesia-program-in-malang

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EXTRICATING NDONESIAN CHILDREN FROM ISIS INFLUENCE ABROAD

Indonesia urgently needs to revisit the possibility of repatriating the neediest of its young citizens stranded abroad, whose families had earlier joined ISIS. Most of these children are in camps in northern Syria but there are also small numbers in the Philippines, Afghanistan and Iraq. “Extricating Indonesian Children from ISIS Influence Abroad”, the latest report from the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) argues that the government could begin by bringing back small groups of unaccompanied children under ten years of age, who pose minimal security risk and are most vulnerable to deteriorating conditions in the camps.“The problem is that health and security conditions are worsening by the day in the Syrian camps, and the children are growing older,” says Dyah Kartika, IPAC analyst. “They need access to schools, a nurturing environment, and medical attention. If the government waits too long, the children will be further exposed to ISIS ideology.” The new report examines a 2019 list of Indonesians in camps and prisons run by the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). The Indonesian government has been trying to verify their citizenship, but with pseudonyms, misspellings and bad transliterations, it is a daunting task. At the time the data was collected, between March and June 2019, there were 555 Indonesians in SDF camps and prisons, including 367 children. Among the children, approximately 277 were under the age of ten and 34 were unaccompanied. In June 2021, there are fewer than ten children who are both unaccompanied and under the age of ten that could be prioritized for return. Bringing back children of ISIS families is no easy task. The report analyses the main challenges faced by the Indonesian government. These include definitional issues, bureaucratic competition, the difficulty of verifying nationality, evaluating the toll of exposure to conflict, assessing security risk, and finding relatives or others willing to provide care once the children are returned. In addition, COVID has meant stringent restrictions on travel, placing further obstacles in the way of repatriation. There are several models for rehabilitation of children exposed to violent extremism in Indonesia that could be modified to accommodate the needs of children repatriated from abroad. The report examines these models and argues that the government does not need to have every detail of rehabilitation programs in place before it starts extricating children from ISIS influence. It can start by bringing back the most vulnerable children and then modify programs as needed.

“It’s important that the government see these children as victims” says Dyah. “They deserve a chance to be children again.”

INDONESIA: Alliance To End Plastic Waste Launches $29m Bersih Indonesia Program in Malang

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