Badung, Bali, July 5 -- Deputy Minister of Home Affairs, Bima Arya Sugiarto, has highlighted the need to address the problem of waste from the upstream or household level through the sorting of waste and ensuring off-takers for collecting waste.

"One problem that really troubles regional heads... is the issue of waste. Many regional heads do not handle it because it is very complex," he said in Badung, Bali, on Saturday.

According to Sugiarto, Indonesia generates 64 million tons of waste per year, and 5.4 million tons of this waste is plastic. Three million tons of the total plastic waste ends up in the sea every year, which is why regional governments need to take action on the issue, he added.

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