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Advances in Health Sciences Research, volume 31 Proceedings of the 1st International Scientific Meeting on Public Health and Sports (ISMOPHS 2019) Relationship Between Knowledge and Income With Community Participation in the Program of Cimahi Master Waste Bank Unit 2018 Budiman1,* Fitriani Manan2, Nevi Amelia Yasmin3 1 Public Health Study Program, STIKES A. Yani Cimahi 2 Public Health Study Program, STIKES A. Yani Cimahi 3 Public Health Study Program, STIKES A. Yani Cimahi * Corresponding author Email: [email protected] ABSTRACT Community participation in the waste management program can certainly reduce the environmental burden. The potential for reducing waste at the source can reach 50% of the total waste generated. The reduction in waste can save landfill land and can also reduce the amount of waste transport and produce recycled material that is good enough because it is not mixed with other waste. The study aimed to determine the relationship between knowledge and income with community participation in the Cimahi Central Garbage Bank Unit program in Cimahi Selatan District, Cimahi City. The research method used was cross-sectional. The research sample was taken from respondents who had become customers and had not yet become customers in the waste bank. As many as 100 people sampled by simple random sampling. The research instrument used a questionnaire. Data analysis used Chi square test and the magnitude of the relationship. The results of the study were 27.0% of samples had insufficient knowledge, 47.0% were low income, 94.0% had not become customers in the Waste Bank, and there was no relationship between knowledge (p value = 0.66) and income (p value = 0.21) with community participation in the Cimahi Induk Garbage Bank Unit program, Cimahi Selatan District, Cimahi City. It is recommended that DLH and the main Cimahi Waste Bank increase socialization and motivation for the community up to the RW level and provide waste disposal facilities that meet the requirements. Keywords: Cross sectional, Knowledge, Income, Participate, Waste bank. 1. INTRODUCTION quality of the environment and cause aesthetic disturbances if not handled properly [4]. The development of cities in developing countries, Waste has become a national problem so that its especially in Indonesia, raises many problems of management needs to be carried out comprehensively development. Starting from the increasing problems of and integrated from upstream to downstream in order to urbanization, the problem of slums, and resulting in provide economic benefits, make a healthy community poor sanitation to urban waste problems as a result of and safe environment, and also can change people's population activities [1]. In Indonesia, a large number of behavior (UU No.18, 2008). The problem of waste in people moved from village to city to find work, such as Indonesia is a complicated problem because of the lack of understanding of the community about the construction workers, domestic servants and even consequences that can be caused by waste and the lack beggars, will indirectly have social impacts [2]. of government costs to seek good garbage disposal and The deteriorating environment makes the earth's fulfill the requirements. Another factor that cause more carrying capacity to support life decreases. complicated waste problems in Indonesia is the Environmental problems occur due to high population increasing standard of living of the people who are not growth [3]. A sufficient population and economic accompanied by harmonious knowledge about waste growth has triggered an increase in industrial service and also less community participation to maintain and activities, the business will lead to increased production dispose of garbage in its place. Along with the of waste or garbage. The generation of waste can be a increasing in population, income will also increase. The place for the development of disease and reduce the increasing in income causes a consumptive lifestyle so Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press B.V. This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license -http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. 47 Advances in Health Sciences Research, volume 31 that our consumption level increases, starting from food The physical development of Cimahi City, which and packaging [5]. was accompanied by population growth and increased waste generation, required a system for managing and In Indonesia, especially in big cities, including the handling good waste problems. By seeing the increasing Greater Bandung region (Bandung City, Cimahi City, amount of waste generated along with the increasing of Bandung Regency and West Bandung Regency), waste population in the city of Cimahi, problems seem to raise is one of the main problems. The generation volume that in waste management given the limitations of hygiene exceeds the management capacity causes a pile of infrastructure [12]. rubbish in the locations of Temporary Shelter. Likewise with the limited land for the location of the final Cimahi City established the Cimahi Main Waste disposalsite. Bank (SAMICI) as an innovation in waste management. The establishment of a waste bank is a social The explosion of Leuwigajah (Cimahi) landfill in engineering activity in which the community learns to 2005, which claimed casualties indicates that garbage is sort waste as well as foster public awareness in wisely a serious problem [6]. Based on the results of the processing waste and in turn reducing waste transported performance evaluation of solid waste services in the to landfill [13]. Bandung Raya metropolitan area, the waste generation in Cimahi City with a population of 550,594 people Waste Bank is a collective waste management produced 1,653 M3 or equal to 0,413 tons. The results of system that encourages the community to play an active this calculation use the product assumption of waste = 3 role in it. This system will accommodate sorting and liters / person / day with waste specific gravity = 0.25 channeling waste of economic value. The waste kg /m2 [7]. Unmanaged landfills can cause pollution to deposited by the customer must be sorted. This soil, water, and air, and also very potential as a source requirement encourages people to separate and group of outbreaks of diseases such as diarrhea and so on [8]. waste. For example, based on the type of material: plastic, paper, glass and metal. So a waste bank will Limited land for waste disposal is the beginning of create a new culture so that people want to sort out environmental problems. Such conditions have occurred waste [9]. The main purpose of establishing the Samici in various regions, especially in densely populated areas Bank is to help handling waste management and reduce and regions that are in economic development [3]. In the the volume of waste in Cimahi City and to make people aware of a healthy, neat and clean environment [6]. Law of the Republic of Indonesia number 18 of 2008 concerning waste management chapter 4 article 13, it is A simple concept to reduce dependence on landfill is stated that residential area managers, commercial areas, to reduce waste transported to landfill by maximizing industrial zones, special areas, public facilities, social the waste management process before being transported facilities, and other facilities must provide waste sorting to landfill through waste management since at the source level and at the regional level. One important facilities. The community in carrying out waste aspect that can support the process is community reduction activities uses materials that can be reused, participation [14]. recycled, and easily decomposed by natural processes which include sorting in the form of grouping and The community will participate well if the separating waste according to the type, amount, and or government hygiene manager provides a good system. From the results of Bebassari's research in 1996, it was nature of waste. According to the regulation of the proven that community participation in waste Minister of State and Environment Number 13 of 2012 segregation must be supported by the provision of concerning Guidelines for the implementation of adequate facilities (e.g. separate carts or different Reduce, Reuse, Recycle article 1 paragraph 1, activities transport schedules), and consistency of the process, so to reduce, reuse, and recycle waste, which are then increasing community participation in municipal waste called 3R activities are all activities that can reduce management is included in the policy contract by everything that can cause garbage, reuse waste that is prioritizing social values [14]. From the results of interviews with the Director of Bank Samici, a small suitable for other functions, and manage waste to proportion of the people of Cimahi City who become a new product. participated in the Cimahi Main Waste Bank program Community understanding about the importance of reached 2.97% of the total population of South Cimahi the using of waste still needs to be improved. Solving sub-district 226,167 and the total number of customers waste problems cannot be done by relying on janitors in the Cimahi Selatan District Unit 152 customers. only. All layers of society must participate in helping Community behavior is influenced or determined by the government to move together in handling waste, one factors both from within and from outside the subject. of which is a garbage bank [9]. Internal factors are perceptions, knowledge, beliefs, During 2017, the population of Cimahi City, South desires, motivations, intentions and attitudes. Whereas Cimahi Sub-district, had the largest population of external factors are experience, facilities (income or 226,167 people [10]. Based on the results of the facilities and infrastructure) and socio-culture [15]. interview with the Director of Samici Bank, the most customers are in the South Cimahi area, which are 152 Knowledge provides an influence on people's customers. Population growth and changes in participation because it will play a role in the actions community consumption patterns lead to increasingly they take.