THE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT POLICY ON USING FEWER PLASTIC BAGS TOWARDS SOCIETY'S AWARENESS OF GOING GREEN

摘要

The environment and ecosystem life of human being couldn't be apart from natural environment and social environment. Darsono (1995) stated that environment means a place where human beings live with their activities and everything around the society could affect the development of human being life directly or indirectly. It is proved that Indonesia was accused as the second country that has produced the biggest plastic trash in the world, as stated by Jenna Jamback in Rahyang Nusantara (2016). Due to keep green environment, Indonesian Government stated that using fewer plastic bag to press the quantity of plastic trash in order not to make harm environment. Therefore, The government Bandung City stated local regulation (Perda No.17 tahun 2012) that decreasing the use of plastic bags which their basic materials are not disentangled easily could damage the quality of environment. It is also supported by Amendment from The Ministry of Environment and Forestry (Surat Edaran No, S.1230/PSLB3-PS/2016) The purpose of this research is to find out how care the society of keeping the environment green. This research uses qualitative descriptive methodology by interviewing supervisor of super markets in Bandung.