Indonesia, will force producers to manage plastic waste
Indonesia's Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq speaks to the media on the sidelines of World Environment Day in Bali, June 5, 2025.
Indonesia's Environment Minister Hanif Faisol Nurofiq announced on June 5, 2025 that the Ministry of Environment will soon hold producers responsible for managing the waste generated by their product packaging and will convene producers to discuss the transition from a voluntary Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) scheme to a mandatory scheme.
"In developed countries, it is already mandatory. Here, we are still doing it voluntarily. We want to make it mandatory. This means that if you (as a producer) generate 5 tons of plastic waste, you must also recycle 5 tons," he said on the sidelines of the World Environment Day event.
To support this transition, the ministry is revising the Producer Waste Reduction Roadmap, as compliance by producers has been suboptimal so far.
The move coincides with the end of the National Policy and Strategy for Household Waste Management and Class-Household Waste (Jakstranas), outlined in Presidential Decree No. 97 of 2017, which set a target of reducing waste by 30% and managing 70% by 2025. However, waste management performance is still far from the target, with only 39.01% achieved so far this year.
"We hope to finalize the new national strategic policy plan for waste management by August at the latest," the minister added.
Data from the ministry's National Waste Management Information System (SIPSN) showed that 19.74% of Indonesia's total waste was plastic waste, out of 34.2 million tons of waste reported by 317 districts in 2024.
