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Thrown Away by Residents, Eaten by Scavengers

The behavior of buying food beyond what was needed was a bad habit for people who were already more prosperous.

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SATRIO PANGARSO WISANG GENI/ALBERTUS KRISNA/ M PUTERI ROSALINA
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Rows of garbage trucks from all over Jakarta queue to dump their cargo at the Bantar Gebang TPA on Tuesday (26/04/2022)..
KOMPAS/ALBERTUS KRISNA

Rows of garbage trucks from all over Jakarta queue to dump their cargo at the Bantar Gebang TPA on Tuesday (26/04/2022)..

It was 1:30 p.m. in the afternoon. Scorching, muddy leachate and the stench from the mountain of garbage mixed together, decorating the activities of hundreds of scavengers in zone 3 of the Bantar Gebang Integrated Waste Disposal Site, Bekasi.

This condition did not dampen the enthusiasm of the scavengers to search for any garbage that came from all over Jakarta. From every new pile of garbage that came, there was something they could collect.

Editor:
SYAHNAN RANGKUTI
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