Ministry of Environment and Forests (KLHK) Republic of Indonesia finally agreed to the imposition of a charge on plastic shopping bags. This policy starts from retail businesses, such as supermarkets, hypermarkets and minimarkets. Anticipation of the implementation of the policy of paid plastic bags in modern retail business was implemented on February 21 to coincide with the National Day of Waste Concern.
Organizations who led the campaign's diet plastic bags turned out to have started the movement to reduce the use of plastic bags since 2013 by forming a petition named # pay4plastic. Petition with the support of 61 023 the number of signatures has been handed over to KLHK.
So far, GIDKP Bandung has also helped local governments to begin implementing Regulation (Regulation) Bandung No. 17 of 2012 on Reducing Use of Plastic Bags since 2014 in the Indonesian city of Bandung is the first to have a rule reduced use of plastic bags.
Daily Coordinator GIDKP, Rahyang Nusantara, stated, "We fully support the government's plan to implement a policy of paid plastic bags, which we ultimately aspire to become a reality".
According to the Minister of Environment and Forestry, Siti Nurbaya, the amount of plastic waste in Indonesia is too much. Per year, the Indonesian people to use nearly 10 billion pieces of plastic bags, and 95 percent into the trash. Thus, the consumer movement, such as reducing the use of plastic bags when shopping felt to have great potential in bringing change. While the plastic bag itself takes between 50-100 years to decompose.

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