The Inspiration

Coming from the Jababeka area and studying as a first-year undergraduate student at President University, I have always been surrounded by a very different environment from a typical university campus. Jababeka is not only where my university is located, but also a major industrial area where factories, logistics companies, workers, businesses, and residential communities operate closely together.

Seeing this environment every day made me curious about what happens beyond the visible side of industrial activity. We often see trucks transporting materials in and out of factories, but we rarely think about what happens to the industrial waste produced along the way, especially Hazardous and Toxic Waste (B3). Where does it go after leaving the factory? Who handles it? How can we know that it reaches the intended facility? And, perhaps most importantly, how can different parties trust that the records describing its journey are accurate and have not been quietly changed?

Our curiosity grew as we learned that industrial waste management already involves multiple parties and digital reporting processes. This made us realize that the challenge is not simply about building another waste-management system. There is a trust and traceability gap between different organizations involved in the same waste lifecycle.

As students living and studying within the Jababeka ecosystem, this felt like a problem worth exploring because it is happening around us rather than being a distant or purely theoretical issue. We began thinking about how technology could make the journey of industrial waste more transparent and verifiable without replacing the systems that already exist.

This led us to Web3. Instead of thinking about blockchain as a way to create another cryptocurrency or token, we became interested in one of its fundamental strengths: creating records that multiple parties can verify and trust without relying entirely on a single party to control the history.

That idea inspired us to explore a solution for making the chain of custody of industrial waste more transparent, traceable, and tamper evident, starting with the industrial environment that we see every day in Jababeka, Cikarang.