Jakarta, March 7 -- The Indonesian government will merge three Presidential Regulations on waste management into one governing the utilization of waste as a source of electrical energy for national needs.

Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan stated after a coordination meeting in Jakarta on Friday that the regulation aims to streamline the licensing procedures for waste management, enabling the conversion of waste into electrical energy.

"Hence, with the simplification of those complicated procedures, the process becomes shorter. We hope that within the next five years, we can implement this in 30 provinces because our waste has already piled up," he revealed.

The regulations in question include Presidential Regulation...