One thing for sure: it's never too hard to throw your garbage in Indonesia. What Indonesians commonly do is putting our trashes in our personal garbage area which usually located at the front of our house, right at the side of the street. Put it there, and the garbage collectors with their big garbage truck or rusty garbage stroller will pick our trashes up.

 

有一件事可以肯定：在印尼扔垃圾从来不会太难。印尼人通常将垃圾放置在个人垃圾区域内，一般位于屋前、紧靠路边。之后，垃圾回收人员会用大型垃圾卡车或铁锈色垃圾推车将垃圾收走。

 

Things aren't quite different if you live in the apartment complex in Indonesia. Collect it, wrap it in a tight plastic bag if you wish, then put it outside your room or a special corner in your floor hallway, designated for a waste collection area.

 

Waste collection bill in Indonesia is expected to be paid personally to the garbage collection agent – no tax added, it's simply a cost for garbage workers fee and garbage truck transportation fee. Bring your wastes to your nearest dumping site or landfill and you don't need to pay for anything.

 

That's it. It's that simple.

 

Imagine how much culture shock an Indonesian would suffer when they – let's say – living in a country famous for its sophisticated waste sorting system such as Japan, South Korea or Germany – a place where public-shaming1 and penalty fee for a failure in obeying the waste sorting rules is more likely to happen?