Jakarta’s coastal wall is being extended, and there are grand plans for a giant artificial island—but the fundamental cause of the sinking remains largely unaddressed
. With little open space, groundwater is simply not being replenished. Rains run off to the sea.
Last February, residents of Muara Angke held a demonstration in front of the Jakarta governor’s office, demanding access to tap water. “We have to wait for the rain if we want to take a shower and to wash clothes,” said one of the protesters. The first is the construction of a 29-mile-long wall along the coast. About eight miles have already been built, and construction is expected to go into high gear in 2023. The wall outside Suhemi’s house is an early piece of the project—but as her experience illustrates, the coastal wall is at best a temporary solution.
So expensive in fact—the total cost has been variously estimated from $20 billion to $58 billion—that its future remains unclear. The provincial government has yet to find enough funding to complete its portion of the project, the wall aloThe Giant Sea Wall is still in the design stage. The Netherlands and South Korea have promised a total of about $18 million between them for design and feasibility studies.
Henny Warsilah, a researcher at the Center for Society and Culture of the National Research and Innovation Agency , agrees.
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