ENLARGEMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY OF MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE COMPOSTING IN MEGACITY : A CASE STUDY FOR SURABAYA CITY <Research Note>

The aim of this report is to initiate the Sister Village Concept (SVC) in megacity like Surabaya city, Indonesia. This concept is to address Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) program to reduce the volume of waste load on final land fill disposal site and to promote composting both in each household level and in composting centers. The SISTER in term of SVC itself is stand for Sharing of Information, System, Technology and Economic Resources. In addition, it tries to bridge the relationship among villages and exchange any resources based on mutual respect, learning and cooperation. The principle of SVC is a sustainable cooperation between compost producer villages and compost user villages, within this cooperation, producer villages will supply the compost to user villages. Instead the compost user villages will supply the solid waste to the compost producer villages.