Ganges: Garbage in the River from Faith and Religious Beliefs

Abstract

The purpose of this article aim to present Ganges: Garbage in The River from Faith and Religious Beliefs. The Ganges is a river that Hindus respect and believe in. By worshiping valuable objects and using them for various rituals, it is believed that once in the lives of Hindu believers, must find opportunities to make pilgrimages and perform sacred rituals according to the beliefs that have been handed down from the past to the present. Faith and belief in the worship of the Ganges with objects such as Krathongs, garlands, flowers, valuable, ashes from the remains, etc. Those things turn out to be environmental issues. As a result, the water in the Ganges River is rotten, one of the dirtiest rivers in the world. The worship of Ganges, with traditional Hindu beliefs, today has become garbage from faith, resulting in garbage problems for the towns along the banks of the Ganges River next to Varanasi. Those cities must have costs or budgets to manage waste in the river that they have not made, it is a social cost that must be borne by others to litter from faith and lost opportunities from spending money to develop the city in other aspects to solve the problem of waste from faith in the Ganges.