“It’s kind of sad that you have to wait until the President gets sick, then you act because of that,” says one activist.
published in July by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air found that the emission of air pollutants from Indonesia’s coal power plants increased by 110% in the past decade and is expected to increase another 70% by 2030. The same study also found that air pollution from coal-fired plants was responsible for an estimated 10,500 deaths nationwide in 2022.
The environment ministry claims that it regularly monitors emissions from factories and power plants, but critics havethat regulatory enforcement is weak and largely dependent on self-reporting from companies. Among the measures announced Monday, Jokowi also called for greater supervision of industrial sites and power plants in the region, but it remains to be seen how exactly that will be implemented.
Environmental activists protest the lack of action on air pollution in front of Jakarta City Hall on Aug. 16, 2023.As activists gathered on Wednesday to call for more government action on air pollution, some are cautiously hopeful that the city’s air pollution may now finally be tackled in a holistic way—even if the changes are coming a little too late for thousands of Jakarta residents.
“It’s kind of sad that you have to wait until the President gets sick, then you act because of that,” Elisa says of the recent announcements, which have come as she too is feeling a sore throat and runny nose believed to be due to the smog. “I don’t know how many people already got sick.”
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