Waste Management Literacy and Sustainable City in Bandung, Indonesia: A Netnography Research

Siswantini, Ulani Yunus, Gayes Mahestu

2018

Abstract

Recently, zero waste city is a popular movement in waste management. This concept is challenging since the concept requires holistic implementation of waste management dimension. One of the challenging dimension in waste management practice for the country which has a large number of a population such as Indonesia is community participation. Furthermore, the very first step in raising community participation in environmentally sound of waste management is to understand their preferences, concerns, and behavior. The existing of WhatsApp has provided new opportunities for the development of various models of community participation in waste management, as developed in the city of Bandung. This paper aims to describe the activity of waste management literacy conduct in BJBS WhatsApp group. The Forum believes that zero waste city is the first step towards to the sustainable city. The conversation analysis using netnography methodology shown that the making meaning of zero waste management represented by the level of participant involvement in the discussion. Additionally, the finding also found that the interaction among participant, represent the waste management literacy, through the exchange of messages.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Siswantini., Yunus U. and Mahestu G. (2018). Waste Management Literacy and Sustainable City in Bandung, Indonesia: A Netnography Research. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 488-497. DOI: 10.5220/0010019700002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Siswantini and Ulani Yunus and Gayes Mahestu},
title={Waste Management Literacy and Sustainable City in Bandung, Indonesia: A Netnography Research},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={488-497},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010019700002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Waste Management Literacy and Sustainable City in Bandung, Indonesia: A Netnography Research
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Siswantini.
AU - Yunus U.
AU - Mahestu G.
PY - 2018
SP - 488
EP - 497
DO - 10.5220/0010019700002917