Mendes invites villagers to be friends with garbage: if driven
Serang – Minister of town and development of underprivileged regions (Mendes PDT) Yandri Susanto invites residents to manage waste. According to him, people will get a profit if they can manage waste well. “Then I’m Hakulyakin, when we see that we are starting to become the garbage of the enemy to become a friend we can control, the towns in Indonesia, God Willing, will be free from garbage,” Yandri said in his comments on the Garbage Care Village Movement Festival in Cikande Alun-Alun, Friday (5/16/2025). Yandri even believes that good waste management can offer economic value. If managed properly, waste can be a source of energy generation for craft material. Browse to continue with the content “If we do good handling (garbage), garbage will offer extraordinary benefits. We are a limited meeting with Mr President Prabowo, Mr. President Prabowo will be really concerned about this wastage, it will be converted into electricity sources, in crafts, and so on,” he explained. For this reason, Yandri invites all residents to the leadership of the institution to work together to manage waste. He told of someone who could be successful and rich as a result of driving garbage. “From here we confirm our hearts to say ‘garbage is not our enemy, but garbage can be used as an economic value’, because there are many in other areas, many Umrah people, because (driving) garbage. Many people are good because garbage is made in paving blocks,” he said. “Very rich people with garbage because it is used for Magot and others. That is, we are now starting to shift our perspective, garbage is not something that is not valuable, but garbage is a very high value for our lives,” he continued. The Waste Care Village Movement is presented by the Ministry of Towns and the development of underprivileged regions of the Republic of Indonesia and the Ministry of Environmental/Environmental Control Agency of the Republic of Indonesia and supported by PT Bank Mandiri (Person) TBK. (JBR/DHN) AT ATTENTION 2025 Read the inspirational story of the exemplary police candidate here