Indonesia’s ‘fly guy’ finds grubby fix

Pretty fly for a ‘fly guy’: Labde posing at his factory in Tangerang, near Jakarta. — Reuters

Local maggot farmer Rendria Labde spoils his black soldier flies with tasty treats and no wonder: to him, they are warriors fighting an urgent battle against the mounds of food waste threatening to spill over from Jakarta’s landfill.

Most of the rubbish from the city of more than 10 million people, including food waste, ends up in the Bantar Gebang landfill in Bekasi, a nearby satellite city.