Natural Disaster Essay
Authorities End Crisis
After a blockade by angry protesters, local authorities have made an agreement with the community. The agreement indicated that the waste that was accumulated throughout Bandung between Thursday and Saturday can begin to be cleaned up, although it may take time to eliminate all the waste from Bandung’s roads. Cece Iskandar, head of Bandung Sanitation Office said it would take at least ten days to freshen up the streets due to the limited amount of garbage trucks.
People who live near the dumpsite had blocked access to the roads. This was due to damaged streets and daily traffic of at least three-hundred garbage trucks. Mountains of junk could be seen a mile away and trash has been piling up for four days. This caused the trash to overflow onto the roads and this began to affect the community because of the intolerable smell. Several hills of rubbish could be seen dropping over another town and interfering with visitors in the Dago junction.
Ramdani, a driver journeying along a nearby town, said the smell began on Wednesday. “It was not too bad last night, but [the garbage] began to affect visitors today,” Ramdani said. According to Cece, about eight-hundred tons of rubbish had not been gathered since protesters began blocking the dumpsite.
As of right now, everything has apparently been settled with the residents. The government has agreed to compensate the community as well as some of the families. It also promised to repair some of the broken roads. Though according to a resident, “We have protested many times and always got empty promises and we’re fed up with that. They dispose of the waste but we are the ones impacted.”
After having regular protests to prevent the trucks from coming in, the peoples’ anger has finally reached its peak. Several residents dumped piles and piles of garbage on the front side of the governor’s office in Bandung.
However, the provincial administration and the three regional administrations using the
After a blockade by angry protesters, local authorities have made an agreement with the community. The agreement indicated that the waste that was accumulated throughout Bandung between Thursday and Saturday can begin to be cleaned up, although it may take time to eliminate all the waste from Bandung’s roads. Cece Iskandar, head of Bandung Sanitation Office said it would take at least ten days to freshen up the streets due to the limited amount of garbage trucks.
People who live near the dumpsite had blocked access to the roads. This was due to damaged streets and daily traffic of at least three-hundred garbage trucks. Mountains of junk could be seen a mile away and trash has been piling up for four days. This caused the trash to overflow onto the roads and this began to affect the community because of the intolerable smell. Several hills of rubbish could be seen dropping over another town and interfering with visitors in the Dago junction.
Ramdani, a driver journeying along a nearby town, said the smell began on Wednesday. “It was not too bad last night, but [the garbage] began to affect visitors today,” Ramdani said. According to Cece, about eight-hundred tons of rubbish had not been gathered since protesters began blocking the dumpsite.
As of right now, everything has apparently been settled with the residents. The government has agreed to compensate the community as well as some of the families. It also promised to repair some of the broken roads. Though according to a resident, “We have protested many times and always got empty promises and we’re fed up with that. They dispose of the waste but we are the ones impacted.”
After having regular protests to prevent the trucks from coming in, the peoples’ anger has finally reached its peak. Several residents dumped piles and piles of garbage on the front side of the governor’s office in Bandung.
However, the provincial administration and the three regional administrations using the