PRAKERTI BALI : ENVIRONMENTAL FRIENDLY OF CIRCULAR ECONOMIC SYSTEM

Environmental problems are increasingly complex in Bali, starting from the low discipline of residents to maintain cleanliness, the increasing volume of waste, the increasing types of waste, the number of TPS and TPA are very few and inadequate, then the danger of microplastic pollutants that spread everywhere, not to mention the damage to the environment of forests and coral reefs, as well as the rapid development that turned out to cause a reduction in the area of rainwater absorption into the ground. life is the main demand. There must be an integrative and holistic solution to answer this problem, even it is expected to be an integrated system where there is an element of community economic empowerment in it. Solution offered: Prakerti Bali

Prakerti Bali, consisting of two words, Prakerti and Bali, Prakerti means the Strength or Power of God that we can feel as the strength of the universe, or can be said to be material strength, where as an opponent as well as a partner is Purusha, a Divine Power that is spirit or spiritual. Here Bali means the area of ​​the island of Bali, called the Province of Bali. So Prakerti Bali is an organization or institution that struggles with natural resources for environmental preservation with the center of the movement in Bali. The basic capital of the Bali Precincts is the realization that nature is a very large organism and is composed of an inseparable unity, including humans, these intelligent beings, are part of the universe. Humans can live well if humans are friends with the surrounding environment, if humans damage the environment, then humans will accept the consequences, their lives will be difficult and threatened.

      Prakerti Bali plans to develop an integral and holistic program, called the BALI Sustainable Program (Sualiable BALI Programs), where BALI here is an acronym for Bersih-Safe-Lestari-Indah. This program is integrated with the principles of economic empowerment, be it populist economy, green economy, and Satyagraha / Gandhian economy. If reviewed in more depth, this program is based on Tri HIta Karana, which is an effort to maintain harmony and balance between the three aspects of life, aspects of Reverence, can be represented by Principles / Morals, aspects of Pawongan, or popular with the term People, and aspects of Palemahan, in this case called Planet, so in a nutshell, can be modeled as follows:

conomics in general is how to make a profit, but this is not enough, so it needs to be integrated with three aspects so that this system is integral and holistic, first with moral economy, in this case Satyagraha / Gandhian economy, how to try to get profit in a way that moral / principled, secondly, democratic economy, how to strive together to achieve common prosperity, and thirdly, green economy, trying with renewable resources so as to preserve nature. This economic model is implemented by Prakerti Bali to run the Sustainable BALI program.

       Returning to the ongoing BALI Program, here is a more detailed explanation of what is done in this program:

1. Clean, in this program the main activity is an effort to maintain cleanliness of the environment by overcoming organic waste through the method of sorting out organic waste. Waste is sorted and selected, so it is taken only organic, to be reduced by chopping machines, so that it is easily processed into (a) catfish feed (feed), (b) into solid and liquid compost fertilizer (fertilizer) and charcoal briquettes (fuel) . All products can be sold or used alone to support the next activity.

2. Safe, advanced cleaning activities to sort and select plastic waste, to be chopped to be plastic pellets, then processed by pyrolysis process into liquid fuel (fuel),

3. Sustainable, efforts to preserve nature through the action of planting trees for reforestation of critical land and forests, are carried out together with local nurseries to obtain tree seedlings, and solid and liquid fertilizers are obtained from the Clean business above

4. Beautiful, efforts related to creating beauty, in this case relating to parks or gardens around the house or building. The business is the installation or planting of biopori pipes with the help of biopori drilling machines. Biopori holes are around the house, especially in the rain channel and around the park or garden. Biopori is useful for expanding the area of ​​rainwater uptake in the built area, biopori is also useful to reduce the danger of flooding during the rainy season and the danger of drought in the dry season.

     So in this Sustainable BALI program, there is no waste that is wasted, all waste can be removed (zero waste) and utilized, thus the environment is protected from pollution and damage. On the other hand, economic empowerment as mentioned above can occur, which is called a circular economy, an economy with environmentally friendly waste recycling. Waste becomes gold, or at least returns to become an economic object, which can still generate profits and benefits. . The benefits include reduced waste volume, reduced microplastic hazards, preserved forests, so that rainwater uptake increases and rainwater uptake increases in built up areas. The core of the BALI Sustainability program is, first, the garbage is collected moving from upstream to downstream, from the river to the sea, from villages to cities, and from TPS to TPA, which is clear from a little to a lot. So it's easier to solve the waste problem in the upstream because of the small amount. Second, natural law states that to increase the economic value of a material, sufficient resources are needed, what are those resources? First, energy or energy, such as human power, electricity and heat energy, second, it takes time, third, it needs machinery and equipment including materials, fourth it requires cost or capital, and fifth it requires Government policies, regulations, and supervision as well as cooperation between all parties. In conclusion, turning waste into a gold-like product needs TECHNOLOGY and INVESTMENT, and another LAW. These three pillars will guarantee that an area and community will be free from waste problems.