Indonesia's Battle With Plastic Waste | Undercover Asia | Full Episode

Indonesia is choking on waste. Each minute one tonne of plastic is dumped into its waters. And the problem became worse when, in 2018, China sends thousands of tonnes of unwanted plastic recyclables into Indonesia's ports. But investigations by local activists reveals a dirty secret, pointing the finger at Indonesia's paper factories. What is the connection? And can Indonesia ever escape from becoming a plastic wasteland?
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About the series: Undercover Asia uncovers the hard truths in the underbelly of Asia and shines the light on the plight of the disenfranchised and the displaced. Find out what's the unexpected fallout in Indonesia from China’s decision to ban plastic waste; the causes and consequences of South Korea’s massive household debt; the rise of non-consensual porn in Singapore; and the dark side of the quest for white skin in the Philippines.
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[@girlzyu87]

Dokumenter ini mengajarkan kita bahwa kebersihan lingkungan adalah tanggung jawab kita semua, dan memang dalam setiap detik pendidikan kita mengajarkan begitu. Tetapi kesadaran kita untuk menciptakan lingkungan yang layak dan bersih untuk generasi berikutnya masih lah sangat sangat sangat rendah. Semoga aza kesadaran masyarakat bisa meningkat.....

[@kuraraitsibana7673]

It takes years cleaning bodies of water like Pasig River it was rehabilitated during the 90's but in 2018 the river won Asia Riverprize Award for successfully reviving the once biologically dead river and bravely bit mekong and ganges river and our Goverment doesn't stop there the rehabilitation and cleaning are still going on everyday and spend vast amount of money for cleaning and relocating people living along riverbank and educate people on proper waste disposal in a holistic and sustainable approach. It's a long way to go but our Goverment did their best in protecting our environment our only one habitat for the future generation.

[@joesupsup7024]

I remember in 2016 Manila Philippines was like this full of garbage anywhere.. Now 2019_20 our rivers and oceans are almost clean. 80%percent of our rivers and oceans are free from garbage... Our informal settlers lived nearby rivers are reduce by 70% just to reduce dumping garbage on the water... Hope Indonesia will be clean the oceans as well... We did it means you will do it as well We build water treatment as well so that our water come out from the creek going to oceans is clean.. All hotels, malls, residential are obligated to have water treatment or connect with water treatment.. They have been penalties and closed by the government for clean water act. We are more poor than Indonesia but we did it our best to clean our water.. All over the country we have clean water act..rich County thrown their garbage here as well then government return it to them..... We banned export garbage as well..

[@joesupsup7024]

Philippines Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia are brothers and I think we have the same ancestors as well. Dispite religions and cultures. We have to work together in order to grow. We have to clean our oceans and invironment... This is not about leadership but it's about willingness of citizens with the help of governments, lgu etc. Philippines very poor but we strive to clean our waters and rivers first, air pollution as well... Ban exported garbage. Return it to them... We have one oceans means we share everything in the middle of water..

[@anthonyworldwidetv1070]

@X I agree, Philippines GDP is quite lower than Indonesia considering this country is much bigger and with huge population, when it comes to improvement and development Philippines is getting fast in a fast years and is far way better than Indonesia.

[@bimasetyaputra8381]

@X free money from the goverment? What that has gotta do with anything?

[@MB-wc7dr]

I don't know what to say about Indonesia's citizens indifference to pollution. It is a very ancient culture with age old ways of living in harmony with the Earth. I wish success to Indonesia's environmental activists.

[@xavierbrown4051]

Bruh. Rich countries clean their own land by dumping it here. Where are the Indonesians supposed to dump it now? Theres a difference between indifference and not knowing how to solve a problem or having the ability.

[@rainbowbridgerestoration979]

@@xavierbrown4051 gawd bless ya!!! Lol smmfh...bet they were drinking a cup of coffee straight out the Keurig as they were typing that...namaste

[@agustinussiahaan6669]

On the other day I had a western vendor. He threw his cocacola-can through the car window. Sadly, on another day, my Singaporean supplier was just smoking everywhere inside the power station and throw his cigarette waste on the floor. None of my Indonesian staff did it!

[@flyhigh0515]

Everyone should be involve. Everyone should care. Everyone need to make a change. in order to create a greater change for the country.

[@maheshjain]

same problem we face here in Delhi India and i think this problem every where in world... the greed of big corporate and their nexus with governments is the main cause of this mess

[@zianpuinagonmei7224]

People are so disrespectful. They dare say if we don’t throw it here there’s no job for you. That make me so angry. I hope things/minds will change for good.

[@ckchongchoongkian2256]

Thanks to the environmental frontliners in fighting pollution. The mother earth is teaching everyone a lesson now. A new finding that throwing rubbish is not related to education but habit.

[@kristinejeanlara8647]

This is a good documentary tht highlights one of the most common problems that the world is currently facing. Philippines is also guilty of this pollution. 😕

[@mesgard8624]

Yeah, Philippine is so guilty, almost like first world countries that export plastic trash there and relocate their production kek

[@graysonshiro2397]

Most of Asia is like Indonesia, dirty in some area with so much waste. Educate the people on waste and government interfering will prevent dumping. Look at japan, an island with millions people and its so clean. The world should learn from Japan where citizens work together to keep the country clean. They respect the land they live on and its people.

[@therandomgirl1912]

I am Indonesian, and this is really true... argh...

[@georginaleescamilla3129]

Then please share it with the people around you, and especially don’t allow the burning of the trash in your community, it’s happening because everyone allows it.

[@yixuanliu450]

At 10.51 someone threw something at the drone...

[@zero_prfctn]

Yep,very disrespectful

[@ggurks]

Well observed! And he almost hit it

[@candiceyeo2923]

Plastic pollution is Not unique to Indonesia. Must enforce More taxation on plastic use. Waste management has always been a crisis since industrialisation heightening consumerism and degrading conservation.

[@jasonflores4250]

yuck with that guy touching all the waste with his bare hands...they should provide him with at least an industrial gloves

[@jrukawa11]

they dont battle, they embrace it

[@maryngeoh9007]

😊😊😊

[@worldmikel]

This past week was an article in the New York Times about Jakarta's landfill. Due to the COVID economic disaster, the people that trash pick for a living at the trash heap cannot sell what they are able to glean from the junk generated within Indonesia. They need help and there is a woman who has organized help for them. Article: www.nytimes.com/2020/04/27/world/asia/indonesia-jakarta-trash-mountain.html Support: www.bgbj.org/support-donate

[@AngieMeadKing]

I wish you can do this documentary in the Philippines also!

[@flyhigh0515]

I think Philippines has improve a lot in terms of water pollution and garbage. I've witnessed how manila bay, pasig river and other connected esteros improve from the previous years. Theres still tons of work to be done to completely revive our rivers and waterways but atleast we are doing something one step at a time.

[@AngieMeadKing]

WE Art TV before Covid I was doing a monthly costal clean up at LPPCHEA and I will tell you from my experience there is no improvement

[@diablord8477]

So if we were talking about the plastic waste, Baseco beach and Manila bay didn't improve at all?

[@acquisitium]

@@AngieMeadKing so what do you think needs to be done. i am part of a couple of big ngo's relating to plastic polution in philippines and we would love to hear your view

[@AngieMeadKing]

Bertel Ingmar Bertelsen finding an alternative to all the food packaging. Banning single use plastics. Putting up material recovery Centers. Proper waste disposal in impoverish areas. Installing the river clean up interceptor. Education of the masses. And much much more!

[@sachinsooknanan9216]

10:51 , the man hurled something at the drone

[@DanyTriKusuma]

Yang buang sampah sembarangan gak punya iman

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Gak yakin 2045 jadi negara maju

[@yudysputra]

@@ridhobaihaqi144 kalau pemimpinnya punya ambisi dan tegas . InsyaALlah kita jadi negara maju

[@dianadee2600]

Kalau

[@ahmadsuhendra54]

anehnya gak ada yg pernah jadikan isu lingkungan itu janji kampanye, isinya perubahan2, perubahan apa.. padahal level lingkungan kita udah parah

[@charlesmartell2396]

@@ridhobaihaqi144 itu siapa yg pny program?

[@jamalhamdaui670]

I love CNA, watching from Ceuta.

[@tejano2828]

My wife's indonesian/chinese we travel there every summer to visit her parents. I first visited Indonesia back in 2005 the minute I set foot in Jakarta with my wife and saw the infrastructure and how bad it was in my mind I was thinking..."my god I just set foot in the most corrupt country in the world" I wasn't wrong.

[@HKim0072]

Philippines as well. It's pretty unbelievable when you look at history. Both Korea (South) and Philippines had the same GDP in the early 1960s. Both had dictators that ruled for around 20 years. Korea's GDP is 5x the Philippines now. (And, Korea isn't corrupt free.) Corruption is #1 reason why countries are held back.

[@lilyblack1979]

Well, they taught the children to be a corrupt individuals with no integrity since early days, that's it's ok to cheat, it's okay to be dishonest. I'm an Indonesian, and when I was in elementary school, the headmaster instructed the 6th grade students to cheat during the national exam. The smarter student (it was me at that time, not meant to brag lol) was told to bear the responsibility to 'help' the surrounding students during the national exam by providing answers. I didn't want to do it, hence I was totally ostracized. The same thing happened when I was in Junior High School. I was the head of the student organization in my school and just days before my term ends, I was summoned by the headmaster to put the son of the regent into the student organization, to replace me as the head, without this guy having applied for the job and went through rigorous selections like the rest of the other students. Ridiculous. When I said I didn't want to, this headmaster was furious and resent me so hard he didn't even want to look at my face when we walked past each other. The same as the headmaster in my previous school, when the national exam term came, we were instructed to 'help' each other during the exam. I was so fed up with this type of practice that I went to a private high school which famous to hold a principle of integrity lol. No more public school for me. After finishing my high school, then I heard that this headmaster was jailed for corruption and distributing school funds to the other teachers. What a great news, I thought. The rest of teachers who received the money should've been punished too imo, but they didn't. What a shame.

[@binangatanpubolon4911]

It ia worse in another Indonesian teritory

[@realcindydadrana1903]

@@HKim0072 its much more worst in other ASEAN countries ,try to visit vietnam or this country Indonesia ,even their tourist destination was drowned with thrash .

[@benny222]

Agree

[@lelaj4607]

I am glad watching this documentary. Thank you so much.

[@kmymaura4131]

OMG I have no respect, to other people’s who just dump the garbage everywhere.

[@veriantidewata8685]

Wonderful 🇮🇩 Indonesia

[@titacello1045]

Great documentary.

[@patientzero291]

ASEAN countries should put together their talents and purchasing power to combat against rich countries throwing their garbage on your doorstep.

[@agustinussiahaan6669]

My neighbor is an engineer and his wife is a doctor. They "give" some of their garbage to us over their fence. Of course he would answer that it was his kids who "gave" the garbage. Then I wonder, how do those scholars educate other people when they could not educate their own kids on a very simple behaviour?

[@lalakuma9]

I'm glad more news channels are covering this. Jakarta was so filthy when I was growing up, it's terrifying to imagine that it's even worse now. It makes me so angry that more developed countries are always "cleaning up" their own environment by dumping garbage to poorer countries.

[@james.a.h.]

Tough to see progress in a country where people make their own theories instead of listening to the scientific facts.

[@iamkyuu]

This really breaks my heart

[@FrankWu]

i believe that Singapore teach Indonesia how to manage their waste management.

[@brusselsgarden7424]

I remember president Duterte sending a ship of waste back to Canada. I hoped all stopped.

[@fumiyama165]

Indonesia irresponsible behavior will affect and contaminate every nation sea shores

[@joazharimalaysiatabrani133]

Most of Indonesian worker work here throw the rubbish to the river n sometime as local citizen feel not comfortable their action.

[@sheyladeshinta]

It's good enough that now that plastic bags at markets in Indonesia are banned ish. The government it focusing on making tolls rather than cleaning up or educating their ppl.

[@stoopidsillyyy5831]

This is horrible. But all the people from developed countries now blaming indonesia in the comments should ask themselves where their country sends their plastic waste. Don‘t blame others! Cut out one-time-use plastics and recycle!

[@HKim0072]

I lived in Korea for a year. I had to pay for garbage bags at the store and then I could throw stuff away. My building was recycle nazis though. Everything was recycled: potato chip bags, food waste etc. It took me months to fill 1 bag for waste: basically only used tissue / paper towel, dirt / dust, cig butts.

[@kwantum6500]

It's all fun games until you opened a bag and there's a body in it-

[@aripinsbima5444]

10:51

[@jesseblack3550]

Do they not have any recycling bins??

[@cherryannlignes4705]

Indonesia should think a solution for the plastic waste . In Singapore all the plastic waste are incinerated but in Eco friendly way and turn into ash and it is shipped to a man made island. Reduce the use of Plastic. In market use paper bag and encourage the citizen not to use plastic bags.

[@samasama941]

What a holy job the cleaning crew have

[@twmpuketa]

A ton a minute equates to roughly 200 gals a minute of potential free diesel fuel with the pyrolisis process.

[@liwang1234]

what if someone dump a dead body into the river

[@MB-wc7dr]

Indonesia could create tens or even hundreds of thousands of jobs in recycling. India does it everyday. As well, shame on the West for shipping their waste overseas.

[@merlie1254]

I don’t know why the dumps are not being managed well. Maybe they need to come to the US and learn how managed the dumps are. Methane gas is being used to generate power.

[@jejakamalaya1484]

Why blame the consumer? Plastic bag? The packaging itself is non recyclable.blame it all at the factory and packaging style and material. Treat the main souce of problem

[@ahmadsuhendra54]

it is 2020, but those people have never learned 😑

[@buildersoflegends7106]

This is more of an international problem, especially countries with uneducated citizens.

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

And they said in 2045 indonesia will be a developed country.... like US EU Japan South Korea Singapore China. BULLSHIT!!

[@eternals4376]

I'm sorry if the west also gives trash to asia

[@svitlanalozova1103]

Sometimes I feel like Bill Gates with his mission is on the right way... What have your done with our home, with our planet?!

[@AYY116]

I m sure #19 will lower the trash dumping..

[@hellociti8608]

REFLECTION OF THEIR PERSONALITY.. WHAT YOU ARE IS WHAT YOU DO.. THEY POLLUTE THE WATER AND AIR.. WTF...

[@dewidewd5372]

Kalau memang china membuang plastic sampah ke indonesia harus kirim balik sampah palstic ke china

[@sheyladeshinta]

Mungkin pemerintah juga gak bisa lakuin itu kalau kita ngemis ke mereka juga

[@mariaannainditahernawati7132]

yg buang sampah pake kontainer kan dari eropa dan amerika utara bu mereka harus membuangnya ke negara asean karena tiongkok tdk terima lagi sampah penduduknya banyak, pasokan minyak dari saudi besar dan punya industri petrokimia sendiri jadilah mereka tidak lagi import sampah plastik dr negara barat

[@dewidewd5372]

@@mariaannainditahernawati7132 oh i see thank you for the explanation 🤭🙏

[@user-zs9ek1bx5z]

(Opinion) ☝️☝️☝️ *the cleaners have no gloves or has insufficient personal protective equipments (???)* 😱 ... *PLEASE wake up Indonesia, protect the environment & save the future generations* 🙄 *do not let ASEAN a dumping site...*

[@maloubarcela1676]

No respect on the mother earth... The people who throw their waste into the river

[@cdcurry1203]

It would be bad for the environment but I would burn the waste before I threw it in the river.

[@georginaleescamilla3129]

This is very bad, extremely bad as well. I have seen many people doing this in Indonesia, and the consequences of burning this toxics not only to the environment but to the humans, especially kids and elders is huge, causing problems in the brain and body. I hope you can reconsider and encourage the people around you to stop this horrible practice and go to places where the trash is being collected. God bless.

[@pobraposric4927]

This is catastrophy

[@agusti_zainal0445]

#Wasteplastic All countries in the worlds 🌏🌎🌍 import sampah from #USA🇺🇸 #CHINA🇨🇳 #PRANCIS🇫🇷 #UK🇬🇧 #Germany🇩🇪 #Hongkong🇭🇰 #Australia🇦🇺

[@rudijl158]

This is human habbit,, why so difficult to make them understand, this is so bad.....

[@jarrodyuki7081]

collect them using boats and convert them into fuel.

[@samasama941]

Is it possible? If there is other country did that?

[@m.ardyardan1550]

If you have any solution for this problem, please contacts me

[@wimpyslick801]

This is a documentary not a discussion

[@user-qd7er4tj1h]

Education is the solution. People dump their waste where they live. It does not need rocket science to have a basket and collect waste. It is low tech. Anybody can do it.

[@melinacondro9551]

Siapa tu yang bilang g ada plastik ga bisa hidup, mang lu makan plastik dan napas pake plastik?

[@AnkitSingh-gf1zb]

Coronavirus will wipe out rascals

[@LTP23]

"Indonesia is not a garbage" yeah bro, I agree with you but you should first say it to your people and educate them! It's too easy to put the fault on the "developed countries" while your governors keep on accepting the rubbishes! You also could say that as Indonesia did not Invent the plastic, the fault is on the people from developed countries who created it and that's why your people throw it everywhere! This exactly because of this mindset that your country is not a "developed" one yet 😉

[@nikenpermanasari2224]

What he meant was the Indonesia itself has already problem with plastic and it's citizen so he expected that no more additional from other countries.

[@vantastroganoff4370]

DISGUSTING litter bugs

[@PP-vf1kx]

We are not your dumping ground,but we can be your tip....for the right price

[@MrJP-qi2td]

Wata filthy place

[@syazwanmohdnasir7415]

🤮🤮🤮

[@eternals4376]

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