Potential climate-change related
vulnerabilities in Jakarta:
Challenges and current status
Coastal megacities in Asia,
including Jakarta are facing
adverse impacts of climate
change, including flooding, sea-
level rise, intensified storms, and
storm surges, which in turn may
result in large loses of life and
infrastructure, as well as damage
to national and regional
economies
around 300.000
poor population who are
vulnerable to any external
shocks, including climate change
The sea-level in Jakarta Bay has
increased as much
as 0.57 cm per year
some regulations have been
issued by the Jakarta
government to mitigate
climate change
The land subsidence in several
areas of Jakarta reached
up to 80 cm during 1982-1991;
about 160 cm in 1991-1997; and
about 20 cm in 1997-1999
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The rate of groundwater extraction
in Jakarta has been greatly
increased from about 17 million cu-
meter per year in 1998 to about
22.5 million cu-meter per year in
2007
North Jakarta and thousand
islands including vulnerable to
climate change
several government institutions
and non-governmental
organizations are like BPLHD,
BAPPEDA, DNPI and ESSEA
contributing to efforts to
mitigate and adapt to climate
change in Jakarta
The current Geographic
Information System have
spatial data and information on
the physical aspects of
climate-change related
vulnerability, but it
has not been integrated with
data of the socio-economic
vulnerability.
Habitat International 35
(2011) 372-378