For the time being, the bad smell of Jakarta's rotting garbage has been tackled. After having been closed for five days—causing Jakarta to become a city with mounds of piled-up garbage everywhere—the city's rubbish tip at Bantargebang, Bekasi was finally reopened by the Municipality of Bekasi on 15 December around midnight. A week before, the problem of the Bantargebang garbage had surfaced when the Bekasi Municipality and its City