Jakarta is sinking! - Equator from the Air - BBC

Move over Venice, Jakarta is the world's fastest sinking city. Gordon Buchanan explores the below sea level areas of Jakarta.

In a defining moment for the natural world, Gordon Buchanan makes an epic journey round the equator - taking to the skies with experts racing to protect both wildlife and people.

Equator from the Air | Episode 4 | BBC

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[edmundexley]

And still Indonesia's media too focus on politics and entertainment, thank you bbc to worried us on our problem

[DT-ywkg]

It is actually very eye opening for me as I live in Jakarta and this place might only be as far as 5 to 6 miles from my neighborhood, the more horrifying is the fact that not many of us are aggressively informed about the problem.
We know Jakarta is sitting below the sea level and that it is sinking a few centimetre every year, but nobody really brings the awareness and proofs that not only it's already happening, it happens fast.
Our media is obsessed with politics, religions and how to combine them, when there's a literal place not far from our houses where a man can fish on the street. #smh

[cankun]

Indonesian media should show content like this ... not only about politics and news about the sensation of junk artists.

[darkhorseisheartshaker]

Its always the outsider Media who are more focused on the actual issues of a certain country than the media in that country

[Barnacle]

And 500 years later BBC will proudly presents Jakarta the Ancient City Has Been Found In The Middle of Indian Ocean.

[hatboi]

you know you are in trouble when a man is fishing on the streets.

[lb]

Indonesia is a great country, but.. they are also great at ignoring their own problems...

[luddyaria]

Trash everywhere*

People : nah its fine

Flood coming*

People : wtf this government!

[Rayshanto]

"Rapid urbanization gone horribly, horribly wrong"

New citizens of Jakarta : yamaap

[mastersiomai]

People in 8019: Evidence that the lost city of jakarta existed

[lumpyfuture]

Jakarta now: Sinking
Jakarta in the future: ATLANTIS FOUND IN SOUTH EAST ASIA?!

[volume_]

*Imagine if Jakarta was located in the Philippines, Typhoons everymonth would probably sink that City in no time*

[Plantinoid]

Don't worry Jakarta, our Bangkok will sink with you.
Edit:
Welcome to the sinking cities club, Manilla and Ho Chi Minh. Let us sink together.
2eme edit:
Please also welcome Venice, Italy and Miami, USA as our non-ASEAN associate members. Do tell your relatives and friends to start saving for higher lands.

[JustSayRance]

Jakarta: sinks
The Netherlands: *laughs in below sea level*

[raihan]

2 possibilities
1. Jakarta becomes Atlantis.
2. Jakarta becomes Venice.
Forget number 2, Jakarta will definitely be like Atlantis

[PyroFloe]

The problem isn't that it's sinking, the problem is that it's sinking with pollution

[johannes]

Jakarta: Sinking
Private companies : Build up heaviest and tallest buildings

Jakarta's continent: am i joke to you?
Edited: Jakarta's Island

Too many genius people around here I'm out

[trieshohib]

Im so sad. Im Indonesian and don't even know this is happening at our Capital City. The local television unfrequent to expose such an eye opening report like this. But Thank Godness i am living in a rural peacefull village in Sumatra, yet feel so sorry about Jakarta.

[Dexalium]

Atlantis : *Im the Best Mythical city in the Sea*
Jakarta : hold my polluted drink

[nicorivera]

6:14 the woman is hugging the wooden post like saying “I don’t wanna leave this place”.