West Jakarta Mayor Uus Kuswanto, launched the Keluarga Tersenyum Program (smilling family program) in Ali Sadikin Room, West Jakarta Mayor Building A, Jalan Kembangan Raya, on Friday (4/30). This activity, which collaborated with the West Jakarta TP PKK and the Rumah Sosial Kutub, was held virtually and offline.

They collaborate to collect used cooking oil from the community door to door

It was also marked by the signing of an MoU between West Jakarta TP PKK Chairperson, Lisniawati Uus with Rumah Sosial Kutub Director, Suhito. It was symbolically conducted by pouring alms of used cooking oil into alms vats and giving donations to orphans.

The mayor said that his party was very supportive of this activity. It was because, with this program, used cooking oil, which was previously waste after being managed by involving PKK cadres and other elements, became useful. Later on, each urban village wouls have a kind of used cooking oil alms ATM.

"They collaborate to collect used cooking oil from the community door to door. Besides giving alms, we also help preserve the environment," he expressed, Friday (4/30).

He had instructed all ranks including urban village/sub-district heads, RT/RW caretakers to jointly help PKK cadres in succeeding the program.

TP PKK Chairperson, Lisniawati Uus explained the keluarga tersenyum program was one of the initiatives of her staff in collaboration with the Rumah Kutub Sosial as a community empowerment program in an effort to deal with used used oil waste. It was also one of the solutions to create a healthy, clean and blessed family by no longer using cooking oil repeatedly until it runs out and also not throwing it carelessly thus not to pollute the environment.

"Our cadre has also run the same program. In Jati Pulo, we have managed to collect about 612 liters of used cooking oil alms. It will be used as raw material for bio diesel, whose beneficial values will be managed for social, health, environmental and community empowerment programs," he explained.

She furthered that people could donate their used cooking oil to alms vats that were available at the RT/RW and the nearest urban village office. Then the Rumah Sosial Kutub Polar would later educate all West Jakarta PKK cadres and was targeting to distribute 6,000 barrels of alms in stages throughout West Jakarta.

Rumah Sosial Kutub Director, Suhito addee this program was community empowerment in the environmental-health sector. The concept empowers all existing elements. That meant everyone could be involved to collaborate in building West Jakarta to be even better.

"We'll educate the public, not to use cooking oil continuously. The cooking oil is not thrown away, but collected in each house with bottles and so on. When it is full, take it to the existing alms vats to RT level," he said.