Jakarta, Aug. 6 -- Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq announced his readiness to guide schools in managing their waste instead of sending it to external facilities.

"Through education at all levels, we hope to create hubs for transforming waste management," he noted in a statement here on Wednesday.

The minister made the statement after witnessing, on Tuesday, the declaration of 789 schools in North Jakarta as environmentally-friendly schools under the Sekolah Adiwiyata program.

Regarding the declaration, the Ministry of Environment stated its readiness to strengthen the role of the education sector in encouraging a cultural shift toward better waste management and environmental conservation to achieve the target of 100 percent ...