Ecological Suicide
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
WITH open green space of only one-fifteenth of the total land area, Jakarta is often inundated by rain. Meanwhile the volume of water flooding in from the south of the city is also growing. Because open areas have a variety of functions, it is not just floods that have become a ritual of disasters in the capital city.
Yosep Suprayogi
RATU JAYA UPSTREAM DAM
Threat from the South AS a result of the destruction of water catchment areas, 75 per
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