Beyond that, its air and ground water are heavily polluted, it floods regularly and its streets are so clogged that it is estimated congestion costs the economy $4.5 billion a year. The main cause is uncontrolled ground water extraction, but it has been exacerbated by the rising Java Sea due to climate change. It has been described as the world's most rapidly sinking city, and at the current rate, it is estimated that one-third of the city could be submerged by 2050. Jakarta itself is home to about 10 million people and three times that number in the greater metropolitan area. Men put garbage bags into an open dumpster in a low-income neighborhood in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Jan. 'There are threats to water systems and risks of climate change, threats to flora and fauna, and threats of pollution and environmental damage,' she said.

'The new capital city's strategic environmental study shows that there are at least three basic problems,' said Dwi Sawung, an official with the WALHI environmental group. Skeptics worry, however, about the environmental impact of plunking a sprawling 256,000-hectare (990 square mile) city down in Borneo's East Kalimantan province, which is home to orangutans, leopards and a wide array of other wildlife, as well as committing $34 billion to the ambitious project amid a global pandemic. toward an Indonesia based on innovation and technology based on a green economy.' 'The main goal is to build a smart new city, a new city that is competitive at the global level, to build a new locomotive for the transformation. 'The construction of the new capital city is not merely a physical move of government offices,' Widodo said last week ahead of parliament's approval of the plan. Asia Indonesia raises volcano warning to second-highest level

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