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Location Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
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Dengue fever is a serious, sometimes fatal illness, which has been increasing in recent years in Indonesia. It is spread by a type of mosquito which can breeds in very small amounts of water - including rainwater captured by litter, such as discarded plastic bags.

This project has addressed this problem in a village outside Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, through an ambitious waste management and recycling program, including changing people's habits in discarding rubbish.

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Very sadly, the village was mostly destroyed in the May 2006 earthquake. Dr Iswanto is continuing to work with villages, and providing email updates to supporters in Australia.

(This project has no direct connection to Appropedia.)

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Keywords recycling, mosquito control, dengue, waste management
SDG SDG03 Good health and well-being
Authors Chris Watkins
License CC-BY-SA-3.0
Language English (en)
Related 0 subpages, 19 pages link here
Impact 288 page views
Created July 14, 2006 by Chris Watkins
Modified October 23, 2023 by StandardWikitext bot
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