THE Jakarta Spatial Layout Plan mandates that the capital city must have green open space which is 13.94 percent of the size of Jakarta, or some 9,220 hectares. Jakarta at the moment has just around 6,000 hectares of green open space.

Adding 3,000 hectares of open green space to Jakarta is obviously not an easy thing. The price of land is exorbitant and most space has been transformed into concrete forests. “This year we’ll just be able to p