IT was arguably Indonesia’s finest rubbish dump. Now there’s not enough money to manage it properly. The people of the nearby village of Sukolilo are paying the price. Pollution is on the rise and so is disease.

Sukolilo contains the main garbage tip for the Surabaya municipality, whose public hygiene department has several times won the government’s prestigious Adipura cleanliness award. It has existed since 1978 but the real