Umkm-bumdes appreciation for the Feast of Garbage Care Village Movement: Toward Clean Life

Jakarta – Bangun Desa Bangun Indonesia Festival, the garbage catering village movement on Cikande Square is enriched with local bumdes stalls and Msme’s. The business activities appreciated the program initiated by the Ministry of Villages and Research regions (Kemendes PDT). For example, the founder of Wastegood Mongpok Village, Cikeusal District, Arif, said he was satisfied with the opportunity to be present in the middle of the festival. In addition, their MSMEs are in line with the spirit of processing and reducing the use of plastic waste. “It is very nice to facilitate young people, compare our products so that it can be known by the wide community, especially Serang Regency,” Arif said when he was met by AFP on the place, Friday (5/16/2025). Browse to continue with the content, he also hopes that the existence of this festival will be a reminder of the community to be more concerned about protecting the environment. So that future life becomes cleaner and safer of garbage. “Hopefully the wider community, including me, is more concerned about garbage, so we can all walk together to reduce waste to a cleaner life,” he continued. Arif explained, Wastegood is a creative msme of young people who process waste from the remnants of plastic bottles in furniture. In the stalls there are chairs at the table that is processed from plastic waste. “The sale itself is when we see there, we are almost in big cities in Indonesia, most in Jakarta,” he said. Furthermore, Jephri, a representative of Bumdes Sejahtera, claims an invitation from the Regency government to participate in the festival. They were given the opportunity to introduce their local processed products. “Yes, to introduce products to the community in Serang Regency, MSME also supports,” Jephri explained. He hopes this program can help more MSMEs in the future. Because the impact will be directly on the community. “Yes, that’s good enough, maybe the programs are more useful for MSMEs and residents in the future,” he said. The Waste Care Village Movement is presented by the Ministry of Towns and the development of underprivileged regions of the Republic of Indonesia and the Ministry of Environmental/Environmental Control Agency of the Republic of Indonesia and supported by PT Bank Mandiri (Person) TBK. Also look at “dozens of bumdes showing excellent products to commemorate Village Days here: (cover/deck) HOEGENG Awards 2025 Read the inspiring story of the exemplary police candidate here