Critical Success Factors for Waste Management Startup Development in Indonesia: A DEMATEL-Based ANP (DANP) Analysis (Evergreen)

Summary

• The study uses the DANP method to capture interrelationships among 37 validated critical success factors for waste management startups in Indonesia.p.2
• National waste generation reached approximately 25.66 million tonnes in 2024, with organic waste (50%) and plastic waste (19%) the largest proportions.p.3
• Of 43 initially identified factors, six were eliminated after expert validation due to low relevance scores.p.5
• Five domain experts assessed mutual influence between factor pairs, resulting in 1,332 pairwise comparisons.p.6

Key insights

1. Government Support emerged as the highest-priority dimension based on global weights.p.10
2. Learning and Growth is the most prominent dimension, while Government Support acts as the primary driving dimension.p.2
3. Most waste management startups remain concentrated in major cities and have yet to expand into suburban and remote areas.p.3
4. Four experts took part in the validation stage, each with between 5-10 years of relevant experience.p.5
5. The Technology dimension strongly influences other dimensions, yet technology alone is insufficient to ensure startup success.p.11
6. The threshold for the total influence matrix (Tc) was 0.1285.p.8