Pantai Kapuk's Dashed Dream

April 2, 2002

The dream has never really become a reality. A housing compound, simultaneously a haven for birds and swamp creatures, is but an empty dream.

Pantai Indah Kapuk (PIKKapuk Beautiful Beach) is just an ordinary piece of real estate, leaving behind damaged forest areas, excessively loaded Cengkareng Drain and the continuingly narrowing opening of the canal from sedimentation. The massive flooding of last February was the consequence of planning mista

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