The Ministry of Health creates a garbage -free village competition, the champion has been announced August
Serang – Minister of town and development of underprivileged regions (Mendes PDT) Yandri Susanto said he is holding a garbage -free village competition. He said the winner will be announced in August. “We have competed, there is a garbage -free village competition. Now we are in value, God will, later we will announce which town will be best in Indonesia,” Mendes Yandri said Friday (5/16/2025). It was transferred when a speech made of the Garbage Care Village Festival on Cikande Square, Serang Regency, Banten. He said the town that could manage the waste would be the winner. Browse to continue the content “Of course I hope that one of the towns in Serang Regency will become the champion,” says Yandri, who was greeted by the audience. He said handling waste requires cooperation with the community. He said waste management should be done from sorting to the way to waste. Residents and high school students struggled to clean up trash on the surrounding Cikande Square on the Festival of the Farble Care Village Movement Festival. (Taufiq/Detikcom) He invites the public to change the perspective of waste. According to him, it is time for waste to be managed to deliver economic value. “The AMA cooperation, care, our compactness, is therefore necessary to say that we can solve this garbage in a good way,” he said. Yandri invited the public and called on the public not to junk anymore. Because garbage if it is carelessly discarded, health problems can affect natural disasters. “Don’t throw garbage in the fields or in the river. It injures our lives. If the garbage is thrown into the river, if the flood overflows all over,” he said. Garbage must be well managed because it will affect public benefit. Yandri hopes that the garbage can be expanded to become a culture of Indonesian people who love cleanliness. “So I invite with this statement, let’s go on this waste movement again to be our cultural movement. Be the character of our lives. Because life is the quality of our environment, depending on us. If we also want to be of us,” he said. (JBR/DHN) AT ATTENTION 2025 Read the inspirational story of the exemplary police candidate here