Waste treatment system reported in this paper is in Batam Municipality. It is an island city in Riau Island Province of Indonesia, which is located east of Sumatera Island and near Singapore. It has a territorial area of 108,265 (ha). During the period from 2000 through 2010, the population increased at an annual average of 7.57%. Currently, 1,168,741 citizens live in Batam Municipality. Population density has increased from 600 people/km2 in 2009 to 641 people/km2 in 2010. Waste collecting system is done by three ways. Firstly waste is immediately brought by each resident to temporary dumping site. Secondly the waste is brought to temporary dumping site under neighborhood coordinator by using garbage cart. Thirdly the waste are collected and transported directly to final disposal site by conveyor company. Interestingly since it is difficult to find site for temporary dumping site in residential place, household waste must to be collected from door to door by conveyor company. The waste generation from offices, industries, markets also are stored in 1. Existing Waste Treatment System in Batam their containers/temporary dumping site before Municipality transferred to final disposal site. Solid waste treatment system in Batam Government has conducted a 3R (reduce, reuse Municipality is managed by Dinas Kebersihan dan and recycle of the waste) campaign to community.2) Pertamanan (DKP) (Waste and Landscape Management Agency). This institution has been Hereafter we can find several neighborhoods which appointed according to Batam Municipality have done waste source treatment although it is still Regulation No.12/2007 regarding Establishing on limited because of lack of knowledge and low Organization Structure and Work Arrangement in willingness to implement government campaign. Batam Municipality. Waste transportation in Batam Municipality is held by conveyor company and supported by
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