“It is predicted that without the 3R program, by 2012 Surabaya’s landfills will be totally paralyzed by the enormous amount of trash produced per day. Thus a zero waste solution must be devised; preferably a simple, cost-efficient, and community-based method.”
Everyone knows that trash, rubbish, garbage; whatever you want to call it, society’s refuse is a problem to practically every city in the world. A city has faced waste-related problems at least once during its existence. Failure to treat waste can lead to the genesis of an unhealthy environment, …

Word by word suffocated my lungs and so they hung there, limped and numbed. The scattered houses down bellow are a jungle of undeniable truths of how living squatters in Indonesia’s biggest city, Jakarta is conditioned. I am sure if you open the car window you would smell the bad odor rousing from down there. Haphazard developments of housing on unattended or under disputes of ownership lands are what had happened to form these squatters.

Anyone familiar with Surabaya will definitely know Dolly, a red-light district, which, some people have mentioned to be one of South Asia’s largest. The fact that Dolly is a big thing certainly means that it has great potentials especially in contributing to regional income. Not only that, other businesses (non-sex-oriented) flourish in the area as a result of Dolly’s magnetic potentials. However, behind all its fame, Dolly also causes a degree of uneasiness to residents who live in the vicinity by spawning excess activities such as crime and drug abuse.

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