BWMTC collaborated again with the BRASTI community, Tamblingan, in a clean-up activity at Tamblingan Lake on Thursday, 12 September 2024.
This clean-up is one of a series of activities for six days, where BRASTI became the host of the event “Tanah Air Itu Bhinneka Angkatan V, Goes To Bali 2024”, in collaboration with PGI (Indonesian Church Communion) with support from the Coordinating Ministry for PMK, which facilitated 30 young people from various places in the archipelago to develop the capacity of tolerant and inclusive leaders through the process of learning diversity, building the spirit of peace ambassadors, and motivating them to commit to building peace, unity, and justice in the midst of the nation.
Before the clean up, the participants were invited to ride a pedau (wooden boat) to the middle of the lake to release kuyuh fish seeds (snakehead fish), one of the endemic fish in Tamblingan Lake which is important for rituals in Tamblingan, but is now starting to become rare. For the record, Lake Tamblingan is the only lake in Bali that still uses wooden boats for transportation, not motorboats, as an effort to protect the lake from pollution.
After the cleanup, the activity continued with a sharing session at Bale Melajah on the topic of waste management. In this session, the MMP Green Team delivered best practice waste management at MMP. Other participants also conveyed issues related to waste problems in their respective areas of origin, and discussed alternative solutions for handling them.
Friends from the Abiwara community and the MMP Green team (Munduk Moding Plantation Nature Resort) attended this clean-up, which was a continuation of the BWMTC collaboration with the community that had started previously. Also present were friends from ROTARACT Denpasar and Rotaract Buleleng Sakti.
Plastic and bottle waste was taken to MMP to be recycled, while plastic packaging that could not be processed (residue) was taken to the TPA.
The waste that is often found in the Tamblingan lake area is plastic waste, bottles, broken bottles, cigarette butts, instant noodle packaging. This trash is often found in areas that are often used for camping. It is truly a behavior of throwing trash that should not be imitated.
Hopefully in the future those who visit Lake Tamblingan will be more responsible for their trash, at least throwing trash in the trash bins that have been provided, so that the Lake Tamblingan area is kept clean and sacred.
Hopefully, the clean up activities with the community in Tamblingan (Brasti, Abiwara, and also open to other communities, such as STT in the villages of the Dalem Tamblingan Traditional Area) and businesses, such as Munduk Moding Plantation Nature Resort can be carried out routinely and bring good benefits to the community and the environment.