Garbage is a residue of human daily activities and natural processes in solid form. Law No.18 of 2008 concerning Waste Article 2 paragraph (1) Divided the Types of waste which consist of: a. household waste; b. household-like waste; and c. specific waste.
 In reducing household waste, the Government has issued a National Policy and Strategy (Jakstranas) for the Management of Household Waste and Household-like waste through Law No. 18 of 2008 concerning Waste and Presidential Regulation Number 97 of 2017. The issuance of these two regulations targets a reduction of 30 to 70 percent of household waste by 2025. However, the presence of these two regulations has yet to have an effect due to the waste from DKI Jakarta to the Bantar Gebang Bekasi Final Disposal Site (TPA) every day instead of decreasing but increasing day by day.
 Based on data from the Dinas DKI LH, it is known that 5,665 tons of waste entered Bantar Gebang Bekasi Final Disposal Site per day, 6,419 tons in 2015, 6,562 tons in 2016, 6,875 tons in 2017, 7,453 tons in 2018, 7,702 tons in 2019 and 2020 as many as 7,424 tons.
The amount of DKI Jakarta waste going to the Bantar Gebang Bekasi Final Disposal Site continues to increase daily. For example, on April 18, 2023, there were 8,399 tons. On April 19, 2023, there were 9,325 tons. On April 20, 2023, there were 8,327 tons, and on April 21, 2023, there were 8,932 tons.
The daily increase of DKI Jakarta waste will incapacitate the Bantar Gebang Final Disposal Site if the Government does not enforce strict laws against indiscriminate waste disposal, and every waste-producing community is not willing to process their waste in its place, instead of simply transferring it to officials, to Garbage Dump (TPS) and Bantar Gebang Final Disposal Site (TPA).
 To reduce piles of waste, the DKI Regional Government has actually targeted the Sunter North Jakarta " Intermediate Treatment Facility " (ITF) project, which is projected to be able to process up to 2,200 tons of waste per day. In the realization plan (ITF), DKI BUMD, namely PT Jakarta Propertindo (Jakpro), proposes Regional Equity Participation (PMD) in the 2022 APBD in the amount of IDR 517 billion and in 2023 and in the amount of IDR 239 billion.
 The ITF Sunter project has been groundbreaking since December 20, 2018 and requires funds of US$350 or up to Rp.4.99 trillion, which is being worked on together with Fortum Power Heat and Oy, a company engaged in the power generation sector from Finland. However, Fortum Power Heat and Oy have withdrawn from the Sunter ITF project, allegedly due to the absence of central government guarantees for a planned loan of US$240 or around Rp.3.42 trillion from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
However, until now, the ITF Sunter still needs to be settled, which resulted that every community shall process their waste on each specific spot in order to help reduce waste from DKI Jakarta to TPA Bantar Gebang Bekasi.
Considering that it has been 5 (five) years since the DKI Jakarta government has not continued the Sunter ITF Project, it is under suspicion the DKI Jakarta mountain of garbage that is getting higher in Bantar Gebang Bekasi became enjoyable for certain parties due to the fact that  DKI Jakarta's annual waste management budget is around Rp. 1.2 trillion will continue to exist and flow into certain pockets.
 In order to continue moving DKI Jakarta's waste to the Bantar Gebang Bekasi TPA, the Head of the DKI Jakarta Environment Agency said that the compensation fund for extending the cooperation agreement between the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government and the Bekasi City Government for 2021 for up to 5 years is IDR 379.5 billion per year. Indeed, the DKI Jakarta Provincial Government has a special fee for the Integrated Waste Management Unit worth: IDR 1,185,436,108,206 (IDR 1.18 trillion) in 2019,
and it is very likely that this special fee will be even higher in 2021 to 2023.
