{"id":2237,"key":"Recycling_and_dengue_fever_in_Sukunan,_Indonesia","title":"Recycling and dengue fever in Sukunan, Indonesia","latest":{"id":1206911,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T21:06:50Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Mosquito-Carried Diseases (20565047612).jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| location = Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia\n}}\n\nDengue 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.\n\nThis 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.\n\n== Current status ==\n\nVery sadly, the village was mostly destroyed in the [[Wikipedia:2006 Java earthquake|May 2006 earthquake]]. Dr Iswanto is continuing to work with villages, and providing email updates to supporters in Australia.\n\n(This project has no direct connection to Appropedia.)\n\n== External links ==\n\n* [http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/mai/sukunan/ The Sukunan Waste Management and Sustainable Living Program] - Monash University site.\n* [https://web.archive.org/web/20201130131633/https://www.serve.com/inside/edit80/p14jell.html Recycling in Sukunan - Australian university students lend a helping hand]\n* [https://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2006/1626256.htm Recycling in a Javanese village] - brief description on radio site. (Note, [[User:Chriswaterguy|Chriswaterguy]] has the audio file for this program.)\n* [https://www.abc.net.au/rn/saturdayextra/stories/2006/1652865.htm Java earthquake followup] - brief update on radio site.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = recycling, mosquito control, dengue, waste management\n| sdg = SDG03 Good health and well-being\n}}\n\n[[Category:Culture and development]]\n[[Category:Recycling]]\n[[Category:Mosquito control]]\n[[Category:Waste management]]"}