TPST Bantargebang: Jakarta's Metered Landfill

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Every truck has been weighed in and out for a decade, GPS flagging it up to 10 km before the gate. Measuring the flow did not shrink it: a waste slope collapsed on 8 March 2026, killing seven.

Outcome🔄 Ongoing

Evidence🏛️ Official

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The strongest source is the operator's or the city's own reporting — an official report, dataset or press release. It grades who did the looking — not how well the project went. All four grades →

Run byUnit Pengelola Sampah Terpadu (UPST), Dinas Lingkungan Hidup DKI Jakarta

Scale🏙️ City-wide

FundingDKI Jakarta provincial government (Jakarta Environment Agency)

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Jakarta trucks about 7,000 tonnes of rubbish a day to Bantargebang, a 110-hectare dump that sits in Bekasi but is owned and run by the Jakarta provincial government. Since 2015 every truck is weighed in and out on networked bridges that print a receipt, GPS units flag vehicles up to 10 km before the gate, and the operator publishes the daily tonnage and trip counts. Measuring the flow has not shrunk it: a waste slope collapsed on 8 March 2026, killing seven, and the site's RDF plant was processing only about 800 tonnes a day.

Live 📅 since 2015

📊 Impact

About 800 tonnes a day processed by the on-site RDF plant in March 2026, roughly a ninth of the 6,500-7,000 tonnes Jakarta delivers daily, while Zones 1, 2 and 5 still took about 4,000 tonnes a day after the collapse.

🎓 Lesson

Metering the gate is not the same as reducing the load. Bantargebang has weighed and GPS-tracked every truck for a decade while the pile grew past the point where it could stand up.

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Sources

↗ UPST DLH DKI Jakarta — TPST Bantargebang profileOperator page: 110.3 ha, land owned by the DKI Jakarta provincial government, located in Bantargebang district, Bekasi City; operating since 1989; average 6,500-7,000 tonnes a day.

↗ UPST DLH DKI Jakarta — IT systems at TPST Bantargebang (20 March 2017)Operator's own account of the data layer: GPS fitted to every refuse truck and integrated with the weighbridge system, trucks detected 1-10 km out, CCTV on the entry and exit bridges, dwelling-time monitoring feeding the agency command centre.

↗ Jakartakita — Bantargebang switches to online weighbridges (8 March 2015)Supports the 2015 start year: networked entry and exit scales record each truck loaded and empty, with a real-time printed receipt for the driver.

↗ UPST DLH DKI Jakarta — published site dataSupports the claim that the operator publishes the resulting series: average daily tonnage, average daily vehicle trips and waste composition.

↗ DLH DKI Jakarta — staged operation after the Bantargebang landslide (10 March 2026)Source of the impact figures, stated by the head of the environment agency: the Bantargebang RDF plant processing about 800 tonnes a day, the Merah Putih plant about 100 tonnes a day, and Zones 1, 2 and 5 taking about 4,000 tonnes a day after the collapse.

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↗ Kompas — council presses Jakarta on consistent RDF output (22 July 2023)RDF plant design output of 700 tonnes a day against the 2,500 tonnes a day sought by the cement buyers, and the Rp59.4 billion a year revenue target, quoting the acting governor from the 27 June 2023 opening.

↗ Forest Digest — what the Bantargebang RDF plant is (8 September 2022)Supports the design intake stated before construction: 1,000 tonnes a day of old waste from landfill mining plus 1,000 tonnes a day of fresh waste.

↗ detikNews — Bantargebang landslide death toll reaches seven (March 2026)Final toll of the 8 March 2026 Zone IV collapse per the national search and rescue agency: seven dead, six rescued, search operation closed 10 March 2026.

↗ Ministry of Environment — the minister on the repeat Bantargebang collapseMinistry account of the 8 March 2026 Zone IV landslide, attributing it to open dumping in breach of Law 18/2008 and to systemic failure in Jakarta's waste management.

↗ Central Jakarta city administration — Bantargebang capped from August 2026Currency check: on the environment minister's order, from August 2026 only 50 percent of residual waste may be sent to Bantargebang, following the 2025-2026 landslides.

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📎 Cite this project

1001 Smart Cities (2026). “TPST Bantargebang: Jakarta's Metered Landfill” — Jakarta, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/jakarta-bantargebang-waste/ (last verified 2026-07-26). Data: CC BY 4.0.

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