Outgoing president Joko Widodo has paved the way for the Jakarta Agglomeration Area Council to solve the city’s ongoing problems. But addressing its crippling traffic, floods and pollution requires the city to tackle overdevelopment and cooperate with its surrounding suburbs.
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But experts are sceptical whether its presence will be enough to solve these complex issues, saying that success will greatly depend on who will helm it. Building a new capital from scratch in the rolling hills of Borneo is supposed to ease some of Jakarta’s burden. At least, that was what Mr Widodo, who is popularly known as Jokowi, was hoping for when he announced the plan in 2019 to move the capital from the Java city to Nusantara.
A boy leaps from a retainer wall in Jakarta, Indonesia built to protect residents from sinking land and rising sea level. Indonesia’s home affairs minister Tito Karnavian said the council will focus on “harmonising” different programmes and policies issued by various governments inside the Greater Jakarta region.
The incoming president can still choose whomever he pleases, including his vice president, Mr Gibran. Based on an annual global traffic index by navigation specialists TomTom, Jakarta was the 30th most congested city out of 387 surveyed in 2023. Last year, motorists in Jakarta spent an average of 23 minutes and 20 seconds to drive 10km, 40 seconds more than the year before.
The institute estimated that Jakartans could gain 5.5 years of life expectancy on average if the city’s air quality complies with the WHO guideline.What is clear is that the new body will report directly to the president and its jurisdiction covers Jakarta, its four satellite cities and four regencies.
“If the agglomeration council is only limited to staging coordination meetings and making recommendations then it is doomed to fail,” Mr Yayat said.But getting two governors, four mayors and four regents to work together with Jakarta is a tall order, especially with the former capital standing to benefit the most from the cooperation.
Mr Joga, the city-planning expert said there needs to be an incentive for the suburbs to forge such cooperation with Jakarta.Allow residents of Depok and Bekasi to be treated in public hospitals in Jakarta and in exchange the suburbs will allow the MRT and bus lines to extend beyond Jakarta’s borders? Why not work together to build a joint waste treatment facility? Jakarta has the money but it doesn’t have the space ,” he said.
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