The Government of Indonesia launched ‘Sanitasi Total Berbasis Masyarakat’ (STBM) which means Community-based Total Sanitation, as their national sanitation strategy in 2008. The strategy has five pillars:

• Stop Open Defecation,
• Handwashing with soap,
• Proper drinking water management,
• Household liquid waste management,
• Proper Household solid waste management.
  
  Since May 2012 Plan Indonesia has been implementing the CLTS Scaling Up project in support of the regional government’s efforts on the first pillar- ending open defecation. Pojok is one of 120 villages that have been verified declared ODF. Read more about implementation and post-ODF follow up in Pojok