Implementasi Kebijakan Pengelolaan Sampah di Kota Semarang

Abstract

Trash problem is one of many problems faced by big cities in Indonesia, including Semarang City. Trash problem is a negative impact from its role as trade center and also as a cross lane in north coast area of Java. It’s also exacerbated by the increasing of population in Semarang city which caused the trash to increase due to the consumption of the society which is also increasing. The trash that increases every day can certainly bring new problems to the environment as well as with health. Therefore, the government of Semarang city issued a policy of Regional Regulation number 6 of 2012 on Trash management in Semarang city. This research will further discuss about the implementation of trash management policy in Semarang city. The research results showed that the implementation of trash management policy implemented in two main stages, the trash reduction stages and trash management stages. In the implementation of these two stages there are several obstacles and also found things that become an inhibiting factors and supporting factors of trash management policy implementation in Semarang city. It also explained about trash management based on upstream and downstream management. This means that management at the community’s environmental level then followed by management at the final disposal level. The recommendation by this research are; improve the information dissemination on trash management to the community, improve and add facilities and infrastructure to support the implementation of trash management and improve the resources both from government agencies, communities and also private sector to jointly overcome the existing trash problem in Semarang city.