Kajian Sistem Pengelolaan Sampah di Kawasan Perkotaan Takengon Kabupaten Aceh Tengah

Abstract

Urban Area of Takengon as the capital of Aceh Tengah District in Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Province in one the cities which cannot get rid of garbage probel which must seriously handle by the Local Goverment, private party and local community. There are many factors that make Takengon an unclean city, among other things, the non-optimal function of managing institution/organization, a poor operational technique of garbage management such as container-providing system, collecting, transporting, dumping system as well low budget allocated by the Local Goverment for waste management.

The purpose of this study is to examine the work performance of the Office or Cleaning and Park and Garden Affairs, Acch Tengah District based on the aspects of institution/organization function and operational management tecnique and to identify the potential of garbage management financing in the Urban Area of Takengon.

This study employs the non-experiment method by only doing field observation and library research. The variables of this study are devided into three categories related to the aspect of garbage management. The three aspects are institution/organization, operational technique and waste financing. The variables of the institution/organization aspect are the number and education background of employees. The variables of operational technique are the source and piling up of garbage, container-providing system, collecting transporting and dumping system and the condition of dump-site area. The variables of garbage management financing are resource of budget, the expenses of garbage management.

The result of this study shows that: (1) institution/organization in the form of office imit the movement of institution in terms of either quantity or quality of employees, bargaining power of institution and the portion of amount of the budget for the institution has been initially approved. Since the institution functions as a regulator as well as operator, an objective control is hard to be implemented. (2) The increase in number and bettement of garbage facility and infrastructure are still needed that service area can be extended. The time of garbage collection is not yet right since garbage collecting activity is done during rush hour in the heart of the city. Dump-site area (TPA) is not well controlled that the activity to anticipate the degradation of environmental quality around the dump-site is not implemented. (3) The expenses for garbage management in Urban Area of Takengon are dominantly taken from Region Budget and Income (APBD) fund. The fund from taxes and its kinds cannot cover the cost of garbage management. The amount of garbage management cost that be born by the citizen is Rp.29.000/family/month, while the cost for garbage management in Urban Area of Takengon is Rp. 87.600/m3 or equal to Rp.350.400/ton.