In line with Sustainable Development Goal 6, Indonesia aims to deliver safe water for all by 2030. Unfortunately, it is unlikely for Indonesia to attain the goal with the human resources that PDAMs currently have. In 2020, USAID-SECO Partnership noted that from a total of 57,866 employees across Indonesia, only 12% had had their competencies …
Bogor city government is committed to attaining 8.6% safely managed sanitation in the next three years (SSK of Bogor city 2020–2024). To achieve this goal, Bogor city government expects to deliver desludging services across the city and mandates UPTD PALD, the domestic wastewater operator under the city’s Public Works and Spatial Planning office, to manage …
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Non-revenue water (NRW) or water loss remains a big challenge for Perumda Air Minum Kota Magelang in supplying water to the residents of Magelang city. From August to December 2020, the Perumda recorded an average water loss of 381 liters per second or 60% of the total water produced. There are a wide variety of …
Surakarta city government is committed to rolling out urban WASH programs being run with assistance from USAID IUWASH PLUS in six urban villages—Mojo, Sangkrah, Setabelan, Kadipiro, Mojosongo, and Tipes—by establishing and training participatory M&E teams. Mojosongo and Tipes are newly assigned urban replication villages. Despite the government’s strong will, urban WASH replication has not yet …
Residents of Tunjungsekar and Sukun—two populous villages in Malang city—could set an example for other communities to provide sanitation issues especially for those who have financial constraints, to build toilets with septic tanks. Based on the fourth cycle of participatory M&E data started in June 2020, 40 out of 265 households in Tunjungsekar do not yet …
