Jakarta and Surabaya may now deserve to be called ‘Cities of Garbage’.The administrations of the two largest cities in Indonesia have found it beyond themselves to cope with refuse. Their final dumping sites are now full and disturb the people around the sites. Every day Jakarta generates 25,000 cubic meters of trash, Surabaya about 9,000 cubic meters.

Several times the residents living around Keputih in Surabaya, and Bantargebang i