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

Indonesia is moving ahead with plans to relocate its capital city from Jakarta to East Kalimantan by 2024. Some parts of the government are expected to move this year itself. One of the biggest reasons for the move is the fact that Jakarta is literally sinking. Ground water reserves are depleting due to overuse and sea levels are rising at the same time. Conditions that make everyday life a struggle for many.

For more on this, we talk to Lengga Pradipta from the Universiti Brunei Darussalam.

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[kapamilyatalks]

Our Good neighbor Indonesia.. Greetings from Manila!🥰🥰🥰

[theparamountparamount]

Here in the neighboring Philippines, it is illegal to extract groundwater. Thank God we have several reservoirs that can supply water to tens of millions of people.

[lucasjames]

It is possible, and I'm just throwing this out there, that the island of Java wasn't meant to have 100, 000, 000+ people?

[asupit]

First of all, apologies for the lady’s answer for not being straightforward.
Secondly, so many factor plays into role here about ground water. Historically (as she have mention) Jakarta isn’t with a reservoir in mind. We do have big freshwater pond but we cannot say its a reservoir due to its high pollution.
Then, most people not a fan of the pipe water due to its cost, and locals believe that pipe water is not as clean as ground water.

[Arset]

What shocking me the most is the lady from Jakarta Water Agency explains the issues way much better than the PhD lady 😅 and whats DW trying to frame here? Tackling Jakarta problem can be done alongside building a new administrative capital.

[abcddef]

No mention of water privatisation in 1990s to 2000s to two foreign companies Thames and Lyonnaise?

[tajmajal]

Perhaps DW could get a better resource person on this topic next time?

[TUHANbukanorangARAB]

5:45 Jakarta is the center of business and trading, means actually JAKARTA IS NOT FOR THE POOR.
Some Indonesians sing,
"SIAPA SURUH DATANG JAKARTA, SIAPA SURUH DATANG JAKARTA, SENDIRI SENDIRI RASA."
In fact, in the past about 4000 years ago, Jakarta area was part of Java sea.

[jufstory]

How can it not sink that area should be a mangrove forest but now it is a very dense settlement. This is because the population in Jakarta is too large.

[dfurianz]

It seems you chose the wrong source for the interview. :D

[noivalencia]

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

[frankyboy]

I think it is perfectly reasonable to move the administrative body away from an agglomeration that cannot handle its expoentially growing problems. It allows to free land for step-by-step restructuring by shifting areas, making better use of them.
A reset or relaunch also allows for improved structures in the new capital. With today's technical capabilities of modern societies, this is not such a big deal... Good move, if you do it at an adequate scale.

[SeeLasSee]

Some sinking cities are looking to pump water under high pressure back into the ground underneath them. Or in the case of Venice just to elevate it.

[saeffareez]

Simple conclusion is.. Jokowi
after visiting M'sia 🇲🇾 recently.
He wants to make Nusantara as Indo 🇮🇩 administration capital like Putrajaya and in the same time maintain Jakarta as Business capital like KL of M'sia 🇲🇾

[AidanZO]

the young lady being interviewed missed the question about the water pipelines altogether! she kept talking about the relocation of the capital city … redundantly

[DANxgerousx]

The problem is, the development is concentrated only in Jakarta/Java so a lot of people are coming to the city to find good opportunity. You need to find ways for some people to move away in the city to decongest it and allow it to breathe. Overpopulation is the main reason not just the pipelines.

[majinboo]

indonesia has 274 million population as of now, half of that population resided in java island, and half of that, that resided in java, live in jakarta. combined that with skyscrappers here and there in jakarta and massive amount of cars and overuse of ground water (equifer), combine all of that, and you have the picture as of why its sinking. the city itself earn 3 awards itself : the most populated city on earth, the city with the worst traffic jam on earth and the busiest city on earth.

[MrKirapu]

the capital is planned to home only for around 2 million people. don't understand how can this save jakarta

[ronelltofte]

Perfect example of the unplanned construction of a city and the consequences thereof.

[simba]

My Best suggestion, relocate those Jakartans to Australia. when there are more Kangaroos than people in that Continent down under!