Abstract:
Sasirangan is traditional textile passed down by Banjarese ancestors through generation in South Kalimantan. Banjarmasin city is the home of sasirangan textile producers which is located in around Martapura river. In decorating the textile, the ancestor used natural color derived from a mixed of herbs, it had not caused negative impact to the environment. However, nowadays, growing number sasirangan has changed on how the producers of sasirangan make the textile. Instead of using natural color usually as it was to be, the producers sasirangan is using chemical color in decorating the fabric. This practice then causes negative impact to the environment where the waste of chemical color sasirangan is dumped out to the Martapura river. The objective of this research to understand how the producers of Sasirangan manage the waste of sasirangan and its impacts to the environment. Researchers use qualitative descriptive approach in investigating the issue of waste management by interviewing key informants encompassing relevant officials from Banjarmasin municipality, sasirangan producers and some inhabitants near the area of sasirangan production. The findings of this research show that the most producers sasirangan have not had solid awareness on how to manage the waste of chemical color. Some of them dump out the waste onto river, others drain the waste on beneath their houses of production. This practice has created unhealthy environment, moreover still many people there, using river as a place to take bath and washing their laundry. This research comes up with the solution how to address this issue by promoting society’s awareness to the environment and create integrated production house of sasirangan equipped with unit neutralizing or processing the waste to the level of safe for environment.
