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5th Meeting Assignment

SP12112 - BAHASA INGGRIS

Time : 1 Week (due in May 6th, 2024)

Name : Abdullah Alkholil

NIM : 1222525001

Paraphrasing

Original Text:

Skyscraper of waste
Greater Jakarta drowning
in mountains of trash
Do you ever count the amount of waste you produce? Greater Jakarta, with more than 30 million
people, sends more than 14,000 tons of waste to eight landfills every day. To put it into
perspective, the waste that Greater Jakarta has produced in the past three years could fill up
Jakarta’s tallest skyscraper, the 310-meter-tall Gama Tower. The gigantic flow of trash, coupled
with poor waste management, has brought the metropolitan area into a crisis. Some of the landfills
are already overloaded or face the risk of becoming overloaded. Soon, Greater Jakarta residents
will run out of places to dump waste.

The crisis has affected the people living near landfills. Smelly piles of waste – comprising
everything from leftover food and plastic grocery bags to used diapers – cause environmental and
health disturbances. The pungent smell of garbage is enough to numb our olfactory nerves. The
wastewater flowing from these trash mountains has contaminated the groundwater, which the
residents use for their daily needs. During rainy days, the same mountains will become extra
slippery and prone to falling apart. This, however, does not stop the landfill workers from operating
excavators to pile the waste higher – simply because they have no other choice.
“The Jakarta Post”

Paraphrased Text:
Tower of Trash
Jakarta Metropolitan Area sinking
into piles of garbage

Ever stop and think about the volume of garbage you left behind? Jakarta and its surrounding city, with
population exceeding 30 million, alone dispatches up to 14,000 tons of trash to its eight landfills daily. For
mulling it over, the accumulated waste from the last 3 years alone could pack the city’s highest building, the
Gama Tower, 310-meter tall, to the brim. This huge accumulation of waste, exacerbated by inadequate
waste management practice, has plunged the region into an emergency. Several landfills have reached or are
reaching maximum capacity. It won’t be long until the people of Greater Jakarta are left without any options
to dump their waste.
This predicament has taken a toll on the residents around the proximity of the dumpsites. Odorous heaps of
trash ranging from discarded food, soiled diapers, to used plastic bags have become the source of health and
environmental disruptions. The unforgiving stench of trash can overwhelm our sense of smell. And the
leachate formed from water seeping into these heaps of debris tainted the water source relied by the locals
for everyday use. On days with rain, these piles become very unstable and liable to topple over. Despite
these conditions, workers of the landfill continue to use heavy machineries to stack them even more, as none
of any alternatives are offered.

“The Jakarta Post”


Paraphrased by: Abdullah Alkholil

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