For many years in Indo the government would just dump the waste on the landfill and doesn’t really know what to do with it and about it. When the mountains of garbage is too high, they would just cover it with soil and plant trees and grass above it. In many cases, active landfills cause a lot of problems for people who live aroung them. Rotting waste on landfills produce gases that are not only polluting the air and dangerous to the lungs but also is highly explosive. One tiny mistake may set the whole site up into fire and cause it to explode. This had actually happened in a landfill in Bandung a few years ago. Toxic water out of the landfill flowed into the surrounding and poisoned the water. Hundreds of people died both from the explosion and from the water poisoning.

When my colleagues and I were visiting the landfills in Malang and Surabaya, I wondered how the government could let all the waste be dumped there for many years without even coming up with a better solution. It is only very recently that landfills in Indonesia are being looked at by the government and also the private sector. This is because of the emerging carbon credit market in the whole world.

By managing the landfills and capturing the gas coming out of the waste and polluting the air, emission from the landfills is reduced. The reduction can be sold as carbon credit. This carbon credit market is hopefully changing the face of landfills in Indonesia and also the quality of life of the people living surrounding them.

People living on landfills

Hutapea explained that besides her own royal husband, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry (the prince of Kelanten), Manohara also reported Kapten Zakaria Shaleh, who was the one who kidnapped Manohara from her mother after going home from Jeddah; Sultan Ismail Petra, king of Kelantan, Ikhsan; M. Soberi. and also Azhari, the husbands body guard who beat her up in the plane; Materah AB Ghani and also Tengku Anis the Queen.

The whole wedding process between the prince of Kelanten, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, and Manohara only a few months ago seemed to be too fast and rushed in a hurry, according to the beautiful model’s friends and families. Manohara was only 16 years old then when they got married in 2007. Her French father Reiner Pinot-Noack was in France at the time he heard the news that his daughter was about to get married. Because of her young age, he did not approve. The wedding went on anyway.

According to the doctors examination and report, Manohara suffered from hundreds of cuts all over her body from razor blades, including on her most private body parts. According to her, the prince would slice her first before they had sex, and he would not stop slicing her until the pain completely disabled her to move.