Jakarta, Feb. 5 -- Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Food Affairs Zulkifli Hasan has instructed the Ministry of Environment to lead large-scale cleanup efforts to tackle the nation's waste problem under the Indonesia ASRI national movement.

"It is crucial that we all undertake massive and well-organized cleanup efforts to manage waste under the Indonesia ASRI movement, with the Environment Ministry as the coordinating body," he remarked after chairing a coordination meeting at his office in Jakarta on Thursday.

Hasan emphasized that the nationwide waste management agenda should involve all ministries and state agencies, the military, the police, state- and region-owned enterprises, as well as educational institutions up to the unive...