Toilet competition sounds weird. However, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism through its Directorate General of Tourism Destination Development has entered the third year in making awards public toilets clean. “This is one way how the program can be internalized by Sapta Enchantment actors of tourism so we have a good image,” said Director of Community Empowerment Kemenbudpar, Bakri. Concept of Sapta Enchantment that he was referring to the safe, orderly, clean, cool, beautiful, friendly, and memories. Award “Clean Public Toilets” in 2009 specifically for the international airport. Meanwhile, in 2010 for the museum, according to the Year of the Museum Visit 2010.

“Usually people run out off the plane right into the toilet,”said Bakri, when asked why it chose an international airport as a place to be assessed. He added that the airport should always be maintained toilet cleanliness. According to him, with the award is tantamount to forcing the airport management to fix the toilet.

“If the museum, to make it attractive not be separated from their toilets. But on the way when we surveyed, many toilets are dirty, there are museums that do not even have toilets. So they got to dismantle to make the toilet,”he says. Meanwhile in 2011, Award “Public Toilet Cleaner” will be given to the international airport and the zoo. “In March of this already established team of judges. They are the road in April, there have been a review,” he said.

As a member of the jury came from across departments ranging from the Ministry of Health, Print and Electronic Media, the Indonesian Consumers Foundation, Indonesian Toilet Association (ATI), the Ministry Budpar, PT Angkasa Pura, and others.