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Jakarta sinking fast: Experts

Changes must be made or the city faces massive changes within a decade. More than a quarter of Jakarta’s 661.52 square kilometers will be submerged by water in less than a decade, as the sprawling capital will continue to sink rapidly if no significant measures are taken to ensure the survival of the city, experts have warned. Seawater could cover as much as 26.86 percent of Jakarta by 2025 and if this trend continues, 35.61 percent of the city will be completely submerged, according to a study by the geodesy research division of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB). “North Jakarta alone could be 90 percent underwater by 2050,” a member of the team Heri Andreas told The Jakarta Post on Tuesday. The city’s looming submergence, according to the study, was not primarily caused by rising sea levels but by the sinking of city itself. ITB’s research into land subsidence


By The Jakarta Post

December 6, 2018


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