green city or grey city? An urban environmental security perspective on Jakarta’s waste management system

DOI

10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.4How to use a DOI?

Keywords

urban environmental security, waste management, green city and grey city, Jakarta

Abstract

Similar to other megacities, waste disposal is one of the most serious problems in Jakarta. Data from the local government showed that every day Jakarta produces more than 27.966 M³ or 6.000 tons of waste, and with 5% annual growth, 55.37% of waste is organic and the rest is non-organic. The problems lie in the substance and the quantity of waste that contaminates the environment and threatens the health of the community. In addition, a poor waste management practices had been triggered conflict between Jakarta and its surrounding areas. This essay aims to analyze the impacts of a conventional perspective and to envisage the viability of a new perspective of waste management in Jakarta. To do so, I will begin with approaching the three characteristics (suppliers, backyard, and fixers) of the center-periphery relationship that come out of the conventional city development perspective. The new perspective that I propose is a shifting from “grey city” to “green city” in the framework of the urban system and its economic and political consequences in order to reshape a city-rural sustainable relationship. The shift will bring insight for better waste management.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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