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Jakarta Is Crowded And Sinking, So Indonesia Is Moving Its Capital To Borneo
Indonesian President Joko Widodo says his country will create a new capital city on the island of Borneo, revealing new details about his plan to move the central government out of Jakarta. The capital's current location faces a number of problems, including the fact that it's sinking.
Widodo's announcement Monday comes months after he said he wanted to move the capital, seeking a place that can offer a break from Jakarta's environmental challenges as well as its relentlessly gridlocked traffic.
While rising seawater levels from climate change are a widespread concern for island and coastal areas worldwide, experts say Jakarta has played a central role in its own predicament. "Jakarta's problems are largely man-made," NPR's Merrit Kennedy reported earlier this year. "The area's large population has extracted so much groundwater that it has impacted the ground levels, and many surface water resources are polluted."
Jakarta has a population of around 10 million, with 20 million more in the greater metropolitan area.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 27 2019, @05:19AM (1 child)
what does "political will" even mean?
people are selfish and short-sighted.
people will vote for politicians who appear to aim at improving people's personal well-being.
(and afterwards you have to deal with lying politicians etc).
first you educate, then you try to convince.
most people don't understand the implications of losing bio-diversity.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday August 27 2019, @05:01PM
Most people don't want to understand the implications... if they understood, they might have to feel bad about their actions, and people don't like to feel bad, so they choose ignorance - whether consciously, or unconsciously.
At the level of national politics, more players pretend to be ignorant than actually are...
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