The Community Empowerment Based on Waste Management

(Case Study in Bogor Regency)

Abstract

Based on a study conducted in 2012, the prevailing waste management pattern consists of 69% being disposed of in landfills, 10% being buried, 7% being recycled, 5% being incinerated, and the remainder categorized as residual waste (menlh.go.id, 2015). To reduce landfill waste, one effort that can be made is community empowerment through waste utilization. Therefore, a program that involves the community—commonly referred to as community empowerment—is needed to provide benefits for both the community and the environment. The purpose of this research is to identify the benefits, opportunities, costs, and risks (BOCR) within this empowerment model and to determine strategic priorities to reduce costs and risks while increasing benefits and opportunities as carried out by waste bank managers. The research method used is the Analytic Network Process (ANP) for Benefit-Opportunity-Cost-Risk (BOCR) analysis. The results of this study show that the greatest impact of implementing this empowerment model is the emergence of an alternative with the highest priority: increasing public knowledge about waste and generating healthier environmental conditions as the main opportunity. In terms of cost, the highest priority is the marketing cost of recycled products, while the main risk is the inability to absorb products in the market. Among the benefit, opportunity, cost, and risk criteria, the highest priority—agreed upon by 65%—is the alternative and opportunity aspects. The short-term alternative is the formation of a waste bank association, while the long-term alternative is centralized marketing coordination. Therefore, this community empowerment initiative can serve as a model for other waste banks.