Indonesia plans to relocate its capital – but what about Jakarta? | DW News

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Indonesia goverment still have to responsible for jakarta peoples poverties, homeless, wastes, lives. Beside in the middle borneo (kalimantan tengah), food estate program was not succeed and havent get reforested. Dont abandon Jakarta people just like that..

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Desalination Plants Are Needed In Every Country, To Slow The Rising Seas, Due To Climate Change.

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You might think salt water intrusion would help with subsidence.

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Java has a lot historical heritage. Perhaps moving the centre would help to preserve the heritage too.

I thinking we are crazy

Jakarta is not only sinking but it's also sinting.

DW could at least did a decent research before putting this news online. It feels like their line of reasoning is too simple and is almost childish.

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Shinking is global problemos!

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Lol the girl researcher didn't answer almost all the questions 😅

The biggest problem is everyday the people like nginjak the land....that is punca land down

IT IS THE FAULT OF ALL THE PEOPLE LIVING IN JAKARTA WHY THEY ARE HAVING SUCH PROBLEM RIGHT NOW, BOTH THE PEOPLE AND THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL OF JAKARTA!!!

Idk,all i can imagine is,Jakarta will be the next of Atlantis in weird ways...

Not moving yet, and jkt not sinking only ur mind is sinking..

War water

The problem is real and serious. However this DW report is not complete. The government has taken some measures albeit late and arguably not enough.

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We can’t let this happen to Jakarta!
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No piped water? No wonder the ground will sink.

PhD lady wasted time of everyone

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the city is so amazing to look at.. why don't they do more to stop its sinking

Jakarta will change its name to Bikini Bottom.

😂 i recall some english adds at germans tv.
"This germans coast guard, eeh what are you SINKING about?"

Jakarta become atlantis 😅

East kalimantan is beautiful....the nature its wildlife...

Good idea

Masa depan jakarta adalah Indonesia
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Just let it sink

It's not so simple. Indeed, the ground in North Jakarta is sinking at a dramatic pace, locally up to 10 cm per year. This is mainly caused by compaction of the alluvial ground and the withdrawal of groundwater by thousands of small wells, as well as a combination of both factors. The effect of the rising sea level is secondary.
The government took the increased flooding for a reason to relocate the capital city from Java island to Kalimantan, where the rainforest is being cut down to make space for a new, "green" capital, for which the government is seeking "investors" to build the infrastructure. Interestingly, new artificial islands are being piled up from sand along the coastline of North Jakarta, only miles away from the fast subsiding areas. The real estate on these artificial islands, barely a meter above sea level, is being converted to gated communities and sold to potential buyers or investors.
An alternative to relocating the capital city could have been to move individual ministries and departments to the 27 provincial capitals, thus distributing administrative activity, employment opportunities, and regional development more evenly across the entire country. In view of the digital age and the internet, this "declustering" appears much more realistic than a few decades ago.
People have voiced concerns that the fate of the new capital might be the same as Abidjan, Naypyidaw, Putrajaya, and other botched attempts to move a city's capital.

Foreign countries only highlight the bad to bring down other countries in the international arena

There's still hope for Jakarta , with especially water resources from outer Java it'll take a huge effort in cost and determination to make it happen.

Jakarta and greater Java island is on the center of the ring or fire, the land cannot sustain more growth and more expensive, hence newer development is needed in solid land of kalimantan.

the sinking is caused by a lot of drilling of water wells, the govt didnt plan for how to provide piped water to its ppl.. there isnt proper planning to build reservoirs or desalination plants are expensive..

Jakarta soil can't support population and development above it. 10 millions people's live in area less than Brunei (0.5k mill people's).

"hi we're Indonesia, we are over populated" ... perhaps you should address this issue first, before you cry wolf that resources are an issue..

Pluit Village Mall used to be a huge pool to contain water but it became a mall , the same also in kelapa gading , north jakarta. Government built mall and church on the green area that are supposed to be park, Mahaka Square and Tiberias Church, also kelapa gading square and balai samudera

JAKARTA CHANGE IT NAME TO SINKARTA

may all java people singking indodesh babu bangsat

They should abandon Jakarta 😂😂😂😂 flee for your life while you can...

Again?

Do what the Japanese in the east tohoku region do. Build 15 metres enbankment / dykes along the lower points of this city to ward off the incoming sea water. Remember this area is close to earthquake zone. These tall dykes can stop the tsunami and save lives.

they know what caused the sinking.. but still they extract underground water 🙄🤦‍♂