2024 Volume 12 Issue 3 Pages 238-257
The repercussions of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic have expanded far beyond public health crisis, affecting the solid waste management system. The countermeasures to curb virus transmission have caused a major shift in waste generation pattern and composition. As a response, governments and international entities around the world – including Indonesia – establish a set of guidelines on solid waste that ensure safety for all while upholding the principle of a circular economy of waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling. This study aims to understand stakeholders’ involvement in household solid waste management (HSWM) in Pontianak City during the COVID-19 pandemic. A social network analysis was employed to pinpoint the stakeholders, their roles, characteristics, knowledge, and interactions in a case study area of Pontianak, Indonesia. The findings reveal that social network analysis conducted in this study highlights the interaction dynamic among the stakeholders. The Environmental Agency of Pontianak municipality is the central stakeholder in all centrality measurements. Meanwhile, the informal private sectors were constantly identified as the least central stakeholders within the household solid waste management network. Furthermore, the findings highlighted that stakeholder tend to interact with others within the same stakeholder group, representing the dysconnectivity of the network.
