A village waste app has put Bongkasa Pertiwi on a national data shortlist. The Abiansemal village is one of 15 finalists selected from 598 participating villages in Indonesia’s Desa Cinta Statistik — usually shortened to Desa Cantik — programme. Its entry links better village statistics with a very Bali problem: getting household rubbish sorted, recorded and managed closer to where it is produced.
01 What happened
Badung Regency announced on 17 September that Bongkasa Pertiwi, in Abiansemal, is representing Bali at national level after making the top 15 in the Desa Cantik programme. The village says it was listed ninth among the 15 finalists after the administrative stages, although that ranking should not be read as a final competition result.
The national field started with 598 participating villages. Bongkasa Pertiwi then went through an online evaluation on 7 September 2026 from the village office’s Command Center, where assessors reviewed its data practices, watched the village profile presentation and evaluated the system remotely.
The next target is the national top three. Badung’s official report says the online evaluation is being used to select those finalists, so the important caveat is simple: Bongkasa Pertiwi is confirmed in the top 15; a top-three finish is not yet confirmed.
02 What GAZW actually does
GAZW stands for Garbage Application Zero-Waste. It was developed around TPS3R Abirupa Pertiwi, the village’s community-scale reduce, reuse and recycle waste facility. The idea was to move waste-service records away from a largely manual process and into a digital system that can be counted, checked and used for decisions.
The current public GAZW dashboard shows how practical that idea has become. Residents can see collection schedules by banjar, service locations, pickup status, maps and waste indicators. The dashboard also presents operational statistics from the TPS3R, rather than treating “data” as a separate paperwork exercise.
That is the link between a statistics programme and rubbish collection: if a village can record what is collected, when it is collected and whether waste has been sorted, it has a better basis for changing routes, checking participation and showing whether source-based waste policies are working.
03 Why a statistics competition is tied to waste
Desa Cantik is a BPS programme designed to strengthen statistical literacy and data use at village level. BPS Bali says the aim is to improve the ability of villages to manage and use statistics as a basis for more targeted development, with better data supporting more transparent and sustainable local governance.
For Bongkasa Pertiwi, waste management became the real-world test case. Village head I Nyoman Buda said the GAZW idea emerged while Bali was pushing harder on source-based waste management in 2025. What began as manual recording was then developed into digital record-keeping with mentoring from BPS Badung.
That makes the project more interesting than a generic “smart village” label. It connects a visible neighbourhood service — rubbish collection — to a repeatable data workflow: collecting information, processing it, presenting it and then publishing useful outputs through the village’s web systems.
04 How Bongkasa Pertiwi got here
The village’s Desa Cantik work started in 2025 when it sought guidance from BPS Kabupaten Badung on applying statistics at village level. In 2026, BPS continued formal capacity-building in Bongkasa Pertiwi, including work on data management and use.
Badung’s latest account says the village was formally declared a Desa Cantik on 3 January 2026. From there, staff worked through the full data cycle: collection, processing, presentation and uploading information into village web systems.
Bongkasa Pertiwi was also one of three Badung villages formally named in the regency’s 2026 Desa Cantik programme, alongside Gulingan and Pererenan. By September, the Bongkasa Pertiwi entry had advanced to national online evaluation.
05 Why this matters beyond an award
For residents, the useful question is not whether the village gets a trophy. It is whether the data makes the service easier to understand and improve. A waste system that can show schedules, pickup progress and operational indicators gives both residents and managers more visibility than handwritten records sitting in an office.
It also creates a model that other Bali communities can inspect. A neighbouring village has already published a study-visit request relating to replication of the GAZW system, showing that the project is attracting interest beyond Bongkasa Pertiwi itself.
There is still plenty to prove over time: digital records do not automatically solve waste problems, and a competition result is not the same thing as long-term environmental performance. But the project is a concrete example of how a Bali village can combine community waste collection, source separation and local data in one operating system rather than treating them as separate programmes.
06 What happens next
The immediate milestone is the result of the national top-three selection following the 7 September online evaluation. Badung’s 17 September report did not announce that result, and Totally Bali will not treat Bongkasa Pertiwi as a national top-three winner unless that is confirmed by BPS or another authoritative source.
In the meantime, the GAZW dashboard remains live as a resident-facing service, and the village’s top-15 position is already confirmed. That combination — a national shortlist plus a working public system — is why this is worth watching as a local Bali story rather than simply an awards announcement.
