Qualitative study of obstacle to community empowerment in waste management: Community perspective in DKI Jakarta

Abstract

Even though waste has become a big problem in Jakarta, the efforts to overcome it are still running poorly in reality. Many obstacles make community empowerment in managing waste difficult. Population numbers and increased economic capacity and community production, for example. Besides the problem of urbanization in general, the community’s role in learning and taking the initiative in empowering themselves to avoid the problem of waste is still low. This study uses a qualitative method with theoretical and recent studies review, policy review, and critical analysis of the theory. Barriers to the community’s internal problems and the lack of seriousness of attitude from the government can be seen as a phenomenon that shows obstacles also exist in socializing the values of waste management properly.