Research Material and Accessing Method

3.5 Research Material and Accessing Method

This research relies on the primary data and secondary data as a key to evaluate and answer the main and the sub-questions. Primary data obtained from the interviews conducted to the eight related stakeholders (the governmental bodies, NGOs and several citizens) in Jakarta, who understand the waste management practice and the enactment of the presidential regulation in Jakarta. The interviews followed the research ethic criteria from the University of Twente.

The interviewees are protected by the European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The Code of Conduct for personal data used in Scientific Research. This research project firstly reviewed and approved by to Behavioural, Management and Social (BMS) Ethics Committee, as well as the supervisors of the project to conduct the interviews. The interviews were carried out in the location with one person (one informant from Waste4Change) via email. These people do not want their name to be disclaimed. With their consents, therefore, this research did not expose their name.

The following describes the interviewees, which information to be analyzed, in Chapter 4:

1. Three people from 3R Environmental Officers in Kramat Pela district from the South Jakarta Environmental Agency in the waste management division interviewed on 28.05.2019. The reason for the conduct of this interview was because their task is to execute and monitor waste management regularly. They are knowledgeable of the current situation.

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2. One informant from NGO/enterprise Waste4Change, one of the well-known NGOs in the waste management for Jakarta, carried out on 01.07.2019.

3. One informant from NGO Iddkp (Indonesian Diet Kantong Plastik – Plastic Bags Diet Indonesian, one of NGOs in the environmental field in Jakarta that currently focuses on having the plastic ban to be regulated in every metropolitan city of Indonesia), interviewed on 13.06.2019.

As for Chapter 5, the description is here as follows:

1. A citizen who has followed the zero-waste living interviewed on 16.06.2019, knowledgeable about SWM situations and practices in Jakarta, and aware of the SWM issues.

2. Three people from 3R Environmental Officers in Kramat Pela district from the South Jakarta Environmental Agency in the waste management division interviewed on 28.05.2019. The reason for the conduct of this interview was because their task is to execute and monitor waste management regularly. They are knowledgeable of the current situation.

3. Staff in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Department of Goods and Packaging) and knows the regulatory system of SWM in general, carried out on 21.06.2019. This interview is based on a recommendation from the informant of NGO Iddkp because he knows about the implementation of the regulation and the process.

4. One informant from NGO/enterprise Waste4Change one of the well- known NGOs in the waste management for Jakarta, carried out on 01.07.2019.

5. One informant from NGO Iddkp (Indonesian Diet Kantong Plastik – Plastic Bags Diet Indonesian, one of NGOs in the environmental field in Jakarta that currently focuses on having the plastic ban to be regulated in every metropolitan city of Indonesia), carried out on 13.06. 2019.

6. One Waste Bank Officer (Owned by Pertukangan Community), carried out on 28.06.2019. One of the waste banks with an excellent structural and practical system in Jakarta.

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The secondary data is collected from various academic literature, previously conducted study documents, newspaper articles, journals, and government reports available online related to the waste management sector of Jakarta, as support to justify the analysis of the collected data.

A brief overview of the materials and the data analysis method are described in Table 4.

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TABLE 4. OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH MATERIAL AND ACCESSING METHOD

Research Questions Information Required Research Material Assessing Method and

Outcome

What does the CE Principles that required in the case of Jakarta for them to have a better SWM?

The detail information CE principles that are suitable for the development of Municipal SWM in Jakarta

Secondary Data: Information from the scientific literature

Qualitative analysis: Information about the principle does SWM needed

What are the current issues on the SWM for Jakarta to not align with the CE principles?

The detailed

information, regarding the challenges or issues, hindered the SWM system, and practices

Primary Data: Results of interviews (the interviewees listed above)

Secondary Data: Information from scientific Newspaper and Website articles

Qualitative Analysis: Analyzing the aspects concerning the

challenges of SWM, the current system, and impact from the management, to the theories from Solid Waste Management

To what extent the new regulation addresses the challenges?

Updated information on the current practices of the regulatory

framework in the SWM sector according to the waste/performance elements

Primary Data: Results of interviews (the interviewees listed above)

Secondary Data: Information from Scientific Literatures, Newspaper and Website articles

Qualitative Analysis: Reporting the

evaluation for the new regulation to what extent the effectiveness of the policy and its implementation to the theories of regulatory effectiveness and the ISWM framework in section 2.2 Does it offer alternatives that circumvent the challenges?

Any possible mitigation strategies to manage the challenges and current point that insufficient in the regulatory system

Primary Data: Results from the analyses Secondary Data: Information from Scientific Literatures, Qualitative Analysis: Reporting recommendations based on the evaluation of new regulations and challenges

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