With more than 69,900 inhabitants, the community of Samboja has the third largest population in the regency of Kutai Kartanegara, in Indonesia, according to “Kukar in Numbers 2020”, from the East Kalimantan Central Bureau of Statistics. Many aspects of life there are difficult, including waste management. In the district we work in, mountains of rubbish are a familiar sight in the courtyards of houses. The local government has formed an independent group of environmental experts, a sahabat sampah or waste management team, to help combat the problem. In 2018 the local community asked for our help to reach their goals more quickly. Keen to help protect the environment, Eni stepped in, offering its help to the local government in their attempts. The parties decided on a range of work within a pilot project called "Clean, Green and Healthy Samboja", creating a complete life cycle of waste management, boosted by a competition between the local villages. The success of the pilot project led in 2019 to the second phase of the project, in the district of Samboja, involving other villages. During the project, families were helped by environmental experts, who encouraged the local communities to keep their homes clean and well cared for, as Mardiah, a participant in "Clean, Green and Healthy Samboja" from the village of Handil Baru Darat, told us.
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Now everyone in the community sees even more clearly the effects of our earlier campaigns to have a sink in every house, grow spices and medicinal plants in courtyards, and adopt a clean and healthy lifestyle.
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