Living in packed neighborhood is a general portrait of Denpasar. Households and industries are continuously producing enormous amount of rubbish everyday. Unfortunately the governments seems to fail in implementing ideal rubbish management, leading the city into potential environmental disaster.

A number of different initiatives for sufficient rubbish processing system so far has never came into reality, so as joint effort between Denpasar and three surrounding regencies: Badung, Gianyar, and Tabanan. Whilst projections were quite promising, there were nothing more than discussions have been done so far. Utilization of city rubbish into electrical power in Suwung which projected to produce somewhere between 5 to 8 Mega Watts was nothing more than plans without any evidences for further implementation so far.

The plan to setup Integrated Rubbish Processing Facility (IPST) based on implementation failure of similar facilities in Tabanan regency, actually has been approved by the Minister of Forestry back in April 2004, with approved allocation of 10 hectares. So far the 40 hectares area in Suwung seems no longer sufficient to accomodate both Denpasar and Badung regency, which together were producing 2,000 – 2,500m3 of rubbish everyday.

“Failure to implement proper rubbish management system in Denpsar will lead the city into environmental disaster. Every stakeholders have to get involved in finding technical solution in expedited manner,” advised the Dean of Mathematic and Science Faculty of Udayana University, A.A. Raka Dalem.

In several occasion the soon-to-be-replaced Bali Governor, Dewa Made Berata admitted that rubbish management is getting more and more complicated problem, not only in Denpsar but also throughout Bali. With existing fleet of he mentioned that some 563m3 – an equivalent of 60 trucks – of rubbish missed to be transported every day as a result of insufficient equipment, manpower, and space. The problem kept on worsening with increasing especially in large cities where number of residents constantly increased. No more space available to accommodate and therefore massive processing facility was badly needed.