1. Introduction
Electronic waste (e-waste) becomes one of the fastest-growing waste streams worldwide [
1]. In 2019, a total of 53.6 million tons (Mt) of e-waste were produced across the world, which represents 21% in just 5 years. E-waste is divided into six main categories that are very suitable for the characteristics of their waste management. The categories are temperature changing equipment; panels and display screens; lights; large-size equipment; small-size equipment; small information technology; and telecommunication equipment; however, 17.4% of e-waste regenerated in 2019 can be recovered and recycled [
2]. Indonesia leads with the highest Southeast Asian e-waste rate of 745 thousand tons/year, followed by Thailand with 418 thousand tons/year. Otherwise, Malaysia is next to Indonesia with 250 thousand tons/year and then Singapore with 109 thousand tons/year. However, Cambodia became the country with the lowest rate of e-waste in Southeast Asia, with 16 thousand tons/year. The high amount of e-waste in Indonesia needs to be balanced with an effective e-waste management infrastructure so that more opportunities for e-waste utilization in Indonesia may be pursued [
3].
According to Santoso et al. [
4], the average yearly growth rate of e-waste in Indonesia is 14.91%. The overall amount of e-waste generated in Indonesia is expected to reach 49.6 million units (487 thousand tons) by 2028 [
4]. In 2014, Indonesia contributed to 37% of total e-waste; consequently, recycling facilities have to support the appropriate television recycling process [
5]. However, because there are so few licensed recycling companies in Indonesia, most e-waste is dumped recklessly. The community disposes of e-waste mixed with household waste. Then, the informal sector sorts and processes it dangerously at the landfills, such as by open burning [
6]. The television waste here is divided into Cathode-Ray Tube (CRT) and Flat-Panel Display (FPD), while the wastes it generates include plastic (43%), iron (26%), copper (16%), aluminum (13%), and glass (2%), with only a small amount of gold and silver composition [
6]. Given that plastic makes up the majority of waste composition (43%), it has the potential to be recycled into a better result in terms of value added by the Material Value Conservation (MVC) method to reduce environmental problems [
7].
Previous literature studies have identified three successful factors of e-waste management: regulation, stakeholders, and infrastructure [
8]. Chen et al. [
9] stated that the regulation of e-waste positively influences reducing the harmful risks from certain toxic substances. Lead (Pb), beryllium (Be), and mercury (Hg) in e-waste can cause environmental harm and are toxic to humans if contaminated, which can cause damage to the brain’s neurological system, disability, kidney damage, and other nasty things. It is estimated that 34% of the e-waste originating from several developed countries is sent to some developing countries, including illegal e-waste [
10]. Countries with large industries such as China and India currently produce much e-waste coming from domestic sources and waste from outside, both legal and illegal. Meanwhile, developing countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia only regenerate e-waste in low amounts compared to developed countries with large industries. However, e-waste in developing countries is an economic opportunity for the second-hand market, as is the retrieval of valuable metals from e-waste [
11]. Some developing countries in Southeast Asia, such as Indonesia, still import electronic goods to meet domestic needs. Indonesia is one of the developing countries which is a role player in the illegal traffic e-waste of the world. In 2005–2010, Indonesia’s domestic authorities found illegal e-waste import cases, which eventually became a national issue. Indonesia is still using Indonesian Government Regulation No. 101 the Year 2014 on hazardous waste and e-waste [
12]. Excellent and appropriate infrastructure can support e-waste management [
13]; on the other hand, an inadequate infrastructure and facilities development and an insufficient budget can hamper e-waste management [
14]. The government has a vital role in managing the supply chain of e-waste [
15,
16]. It also serves as a policyholder [
17,
18] and can serve as a collection center for the e-waste supply chain management [
19]. The collaboration of all partners, including political, consumer, industrial, and governmental desires, is necessary for integrated e-waste supply chain management [
20].
Currently, the formal sector is having difficulty collecting the volume of e-waste that makes recycling economical. About 10% of e-waste can be absorbed; one of the reasons is that there are still few licensed recycling companies in Indonesia, thus resulting in the majority of scraps and residues from industry and businesses (including e-waste) being disposed of improperly [
21]. In Indonesia, the special capital region of Jakarta’s (
Daerah khusus ibukota Jakarta or DKI Jakarta) provincial government has started to manage the e-waste supply chain in an integrated manner under the environment agency (
Dinas lingkungan hidup or DLH) formally. Based on the study [
21], the DKI Jakarta Province, with around 10 million people in 2014, can have 5 tons/year of e-waste from each population. That means that there is a potential for approximately 51 thousand tons of manageable e-waste. Based on data provided by the DLH [
22], there were only 23 tons (0.05%) that have been successfully managed through the DLH as the formal sector in 2020, and televisions occupied the top position with 12 tons.
The purpose of this study is to formulate a strategy of the formal sector, in this case, the DLH Jakarta, in managing the e-wastes of televisions and monitors as a supply of waste management industry in the DKI Jakarta. The formulation of strategies in the public sector is a valuable concept to design strategies in services to achieve government agencies’ goals, expectations, and commitments. The preliminary stage of this study is to conduct a literature study to determine what factors can improve the e-waste management by the DLH Jakarta. In this study, there are three stages in formulating the strategies; the first stage is conducted using the Decision-Making Trial and Evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) and Analytical Network Process (ANP) to obtain priorities of the criteria and sub-criteria in e-waste management. Both priorities obtained will be used to determine the strategies carried out at the next stage. The second stage will use the Matrix Internal Factor Evaluation (IFE) and External Factor Evaluation (EFE) to be further processed using the Matrix Internal-External (IE) method. The Strength–Weaknesses–Opportunities–Threats (SWOT) method is a stage to obtain a viable alternative strategy by combining external and internal factors. The third stage is the decision stage, which is to obtain the weight of priorities of alternative strategies using the Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) method.
4. Results
In determining the criteria and sub-criteria determined using the first stage questionnaire, all sub-criteria have a geomean value of >3.5. The results indicate that all criteria and sub-criteria can be used and have an influence on improving the e-waste management of televisions and monitor screens in DKI Jakarta, represented in
Table 7. The result then became a reference to carry out the second stage questionnaire with the DEMATEL method to obtain the interrelationships between criteria and sub-criteria where there are 5 criteria and 18 sub-criteria, each of which is looking for a relationship, where the Total-Relation Matrix table with an obtained Threshold (alpha) value of 0.7128, which can be used as a reference value of inter-criteria. Once the relationship between the criteria and sub-criteria is obtained, the next step can compare pairs using the ANP method. Based on the results of the third stage questionnaire regarding the ranking of the criteria of processing results with super decision software, it is known that the infrastructure criteria have the largest weight, that is, 0.26762, followed by a social environment with 0.26162, regulation with 0.24418, stakeholders with 0.12227, and economy with 0.05430. The highest sub-criteria, in order, are SL1, IN2, SL3, SL2, IN3, RE1, SH1, RE4, IN1, RE3, SH2, IN4, RE2, SH3, EK2, SH4, RE5, and EK1, which is represented in
Table 8. This shows the importance of public awareness of the dangers of e-waste to the environment and humans. Increased public awareness can also be supported by easy access to e-waste collection in strategic places and easy public access supported by socialization and education. To obtain effective results, it is also necessary to increase the sub-criteria that has the greatest weight, regardless of the same criteria. The sub-criteria needed to be considered for the improvement of the e-waste management of televisions and monitor screens in DKI Jakarta using Pareto were in the sub-criteria of EK2, IN1, IN3, IN1, RE1, RE4, RE3, SL1, SL3, SL2, SH1, SH2, and SH3. After gaining a large impact sub-criteria weight using Pareto, the next step was to identify the internal and external factors to obtain the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. From the fourth stage questionnaire results, six strengths and four weaknesses were found in the internal factors. While in the external factors, seven opportunities and four threats were obtained, as shown in
Table 9. Then, a fifth stage questionnaire was performed to obtain the IFE and EFE matrices. The calculation of both matrices successfully obtained the IFE matrix value of 2.70 and the EFE matrix value of 3.45.
Furthermore, a matching method was performed through a SWOT matrix analysis. Through that, eight alternative strategies were obtained based on matching with strength, weakness, opportunity, threat, and IE matrix factors. The final stage of this study was to calculate the alternative QSPM rating through the sixth stage questionnaire so that the ranking of strategies in the e-waste management of televisions and monitor screens in DLH Jakarta was obtained.
Strategies obtained based on the highest to lowest Total Attractiveness Scores (TAS) in order were the strategy providing socialization and education on the application of regulations and sanctions to informal sector e-waste managers who conduct demolition and burning of e-waste that adversely affects the environment (ST2); improving education, socialization, and information services to increase the public’s desire across various demographic conditions through various media (ST1); developing cooperation with all stakeholders in e-waste management, including educational institutions in the DKI Jakarta environment, government and non-government institutions, as well as e-waste processing companies that can provide economic value under certain conditions and companies that receive e-waste with various existing physical conditions (SO1); improving facilities, infrastructure, and budget optimization through EPR and increasing cooperation with e-waste processing companies that can provide economic value under certain conditions and companies that accept the existing physical conditions (WO2); optimization of budgets to improve waste collection facilities in various public locations to increase the public’s desire to collect e-waste under diverse demographic conditions (WT1); improving the quality and quantity of the human resources of DLH Jakarta from the provincial level to the sub-agency level and establishing cooperation with government and non-government institutions, including educational institutions for the education and socialization about e-waste management (WO1); improving access to information and ease of access to management services including e-waste pick-up through various access methods in order to increase knowledge and public awareness (SO2); and the lowest score was implementing e-waste management regulations from the central government, making standard operating procedures (SOP) and environmental law enforcement (SO3).
5. Discussion
The Strengths–Weaknesses–Opportunities–Threats (SWOT) Matrix is an important matching tool that helps managers develop four types of strategies: the SO Strategy (Strengths–Opportunities), the WO Strategy (Weaknesses–Opportunities), the ST Strategy (Strengths–Threats), and the WT Strategy (Weaknesses–Threats). Matching key external and internal factors are the most challenging part of developing a SWOT Matrix and requires good judgment [
30]. The SO strategy uses the company’s internal power to take advantage of existing external opportunities. The WO strategy aims to correct the internal weaknesses by leveraging external opportunities. Sometimes, there are major external opportunities, but the company has internal weaknesses that prevent it from taking advantage of those opportunities. The ST strategy uses the company’s strengths to avoid or reduce the impact of external threats, and the WT strategy is a defensive tactic directed to reduce the internal weaknesses and avoid external threats. In this study, the calculation of IFE and EFE matrices obtained the IFE matrix value of 2.70 and the EFE matrix value of 3.45. Both numbers were used as the coordinates of the x- and y-axes, so that both matrix values are in cell II, which can be seen in
Figure 2; this can be described as a growing and developing organization. Intensive (market penetration, market development, and product development) or integrative (backward integration, forward integration, and horizontal integration) strategies can be the most appropriate for this division. Another important thing is to study the community’s behavior in recycling electronic waste [
26]. The success of electronic waste management depends on communities’ involvement in recycling [
26]. According to Vieira et al. [
30], knowing the barrier faced in reverse logistics is another essential thing so that electronic waste management can run well. D’adamo et al. [
32] stated that PCB is currently one of the most valuable electronic waste to realize sustainable electronic waste management.
In this study, the QSPM method was used to rank priority strategies in order to determine the relative attractiveness of viable alternative actions [
38]. QSPM is a method that allows strategists to objectively evaluate alternative strategies based on previously identified external and internal critical success factors. The QSPM, similar to other strategy formulation analysis tools, demands good intuitive assessment. This matching tool generally produces similar viable alternatives. However, not every strategy suggested by the matching technique should be evaluated in QSPM. The QSPM matrices are created based on the internal and external factors in the EFE, IFE, and SWOT matrices.
The QSPM technique is intended to determine relative attractiveness and evaluate alternative strategy choices that can be made objectively based on internal and external factors identified by experts in previous EFE and IFE matrices. It is the final stage matrix in the strategy formulation analytical framework [
38]. The obtained strategy and Total Attractiveness Scores (TAS) can be seen in
Table 10. The priority strategy showed by the highest TAS value.
6. Conclusions
The amount of e-waste has increased significantly in developing countries such as Indonesia due to the amount of illegally imported waste and a lack of regulations that can support the management of electronic waste properly. Improving the performance of the supply chain collection of electronic waste is focused on a proper strategy to make it happen, especially in the formal sector. This study provides input on the right strategy in improving the supply chain of e-waste management. Strategies obtained from the highest to lowest TAS values in order, namely: providing socialization and education on the application of regulations and sanctions to informal sector e-waste managers who conduct demolition and burning of e-waste that adversely affects the environment (ST2); improving education, socialization, and information services to increase the public’s desire across various demographic conditions through various media accesses (ST1); developing cooperation with all stakeholders in the e-waste management, including educational institutions in the DKI Jakarta environment, government and non-government institutions, as well as e-waste processing companies that can provide economic value under certain conditions and companies that receive e-waste with various existing physical conditions (SO1); improving facilities, infrastructure, and budget optimization through EPR and increasing cooperation with e-waste processing companies that can provide economic value under certain conditions and companies that accept the existing physical conditions (WO2); optimization of budgets to improve waste collection facilities in various public locations to increase the public’s desire to collect e-waste under diverse demographic conditions (WT1); improving the quality and quantity of the human resources of DLH Jakarta from the provincial level to the sub-agency level and establishing cooperation with government and non-government institutions, including educational institutions for the education and socialization of e-waste management (WO1); improving access to information and ease of access to management services including e-waste pick-up through various access methods in order to increase knowledge and public awareness (SO2); and with the lowest TAS value is implementing e-waste management regulations from the central government and making SOP and environmental law enforcement (SO3).
The stages given in this study can assist in identifying, evaluating, and choosing the right strategies. Formal-sector actors in the collection of e-waste, one of which is DLH Jakarta, can use this study to reformulate the vision and mission, identify opportunities and threats external to the organization, discover internal strengths and weaknesses, set long-term goals, and generate alternative strategies as well, so as to prepare support for strategies such as creating an effective organizational structure, directing marketing efforts, preparing budgets, and developing and utilizing information systems. In the future, formal sector actors in e-waste management should always be able to make modifications to the strategy by evaluating the fundamental strategy, namely, reviewing external and internal factors which are the basis of the current strategy; measuring performance and taking corrective action due to constant changes in external and internal factors.