Sinking Jakarta

17/08/2018 7 min

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Episode Synopsis

Experts predict that large parts of the Indonesian capital will be submerged by 2050 unless action is urgently taken. As a low-lying coastal city, Jakarta is vulnerable to climate change, but the biggest problem is the massive extraction of groundwater, as Mayuri Mei Lin of BBC Indonesian has been finding out.Image: Residents in Jakarta during floods in February 2018
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