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    Fasting during Ramadan leads many Indonesians to overconsume food and generate excessive food waste. Indonesia already produces the second highest amount of food waste per capita in the world. During Ramadan in 2016, food waste increased by over 10% in Jakarta alone. The tradition of breakfasting after fasting encourages overbuying and overserving of food. While Ramadan boosts food sales, there are rarely awareness campaigns about the large amount of food waste produced or how it conflicts with the true meaning of fasting, which includes gratitude and compassion for the poor. Addressing this issue will require changes in behavior, legislation, awareness, recycling infrastructure, and community participation.

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    Fasting during Ramadan leads many Indonesians to overconsume food and generate excessive food waste. Indonesia already produces the second highest amount of food waste per capita in the world. During Ramadan in 2016, food waste increased by over 10% in Jakarta alone. The tradition of breakfasting after fasting encourages overbuying and overserving of food. While Ramadan boosts food sales, there are rarely awareness campaigns about the large amount of food waste produced or how it conflicts with the true meaning of fasting, which includes gratitude and compassion for the poor. Addressing this issue will require changes in behavior, legislation, awareness, recycling infrastructure, and community participation.

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    Fasting during Ramadan leads many Indonesians to overconsume food and generate excessive food waste. Indonesia already produces the second highest amount of food waste per capita in the world. During Ramadan in 2016, food waste increased by over 10% in Jakarta alone. The tradition of breakfasting after fasting encourages overbuying and overserving of food. While Ramadan boosts food sales, there are rarely awareness campaigns about the large amount of food waste produced or how it conflicts with the true meaning of fasting, which includes gratitude and compassion for the poor. Addressing this issue will require changes in behavior, legislation, awareness, recycling infrastructure, and community participation.

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    IS FASTING BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?

    Salma Surjaatmadja (1806138283)


    Ramadan is the long-awaited holy month for Muslims across the globe,
    especially in Indonesia. Breakfasting is a ritual that is taking place every dawn in the
    month of Ramadan. The ritual is compulsive to indicate that for that day, a person has
    completed fasting. Moreover, people take breakfasting further as a form of
    strengthening bonds between each other. Although the ritual sounds lively and
    harmless, the majority of people in Indonesia are prone to have an excessive amount
    of food that put out more food waste compared to regular basis.
    Indonesia’s 264 million citizens produce 300 kg of food waste per person
    annually and hold the second position for the world’s highest number of food waste.
    Sadly, Indonesian’s consumptive behavior became worst during Ramadan due to
    feeling hunger. This behavior causes them to pile up food that they don’t consume
    and end up in a landfill. As a result, Sanitary Service DKI Jakarta reports that during
    Ramadan 2016, the number of food waste increased to over 10%. Moreover,
    Parangpong Waste Management, a recycling center in West Java, told the ABC News
    that Jakarta alone produced an extra 200 tons of waste throughout Ramadan.
    In addition, the breakfasting tradition usually requires much selection of
    food, from appetizers to dessert. As breakfasting host, people tend to buy more than
    they typically do to serve their guests. However, the amount of served food is not
    equivalent to the people’s capability of consumption as to wanting to have the essence
    of luxury; people would generate much more waste. Ramadan becomes a big
    opportunity in the food business to offer good deals since the demand for their
    product skyrockets up. In Indonesia, we can see many discount and promotion in
    supermarkets that attract customer to buy more food. Contrastingly, we rarely see an
    awareness campaign about the amount of food waste produced during Ramadan and
    the bitter truth about how the poor struggle to get food. This problem is contrary to
    the true meaning of fasting. Fasting is a means for gratitude, compassion for the poor,
    and to control our desires.
    The number of food waste in Indonesia is now at an alarming level. We are all
    responsible for this issue, and we need to take real actions. It could be in the form of
    behavioral change, strong legislation, increased public awareness, recycling facilities,
    and community participation. This year, Indonesia has started an awareness campaign
    called “Makan Bijak” which generates the people to separate their food before eating
    so it would not go bad and could still be consumed by those who need it. All in all, we
    need to fix our consumptive habits during Ramadan, as it turns into a socio-culture
    problem that slowly damages our environment and moreover the true meaning of
    fasting according to the Qur'an.

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