Why Jakarta is sinking
Embed
- Published on Feb 19, 2021
- The 400-year curse dragging Indonesia's capital into the sea.
Subscribe to our channel! goo.gl/0bsAjO
Like many coastal cities around the world, Jakarta is dealing with sea level rise. But Indonesia's biggest city also has a unique problem: Because of restricted water access in the city, the majority of its residents have to extract groundwater to survive. And it's causing the city to sink. Today, Jakarta is the world’s fastest-sinking city.
The problem gets worse every year, but the root of it precedes modern Indonesia by centuries. In the 1600s, when the Dutch landed in Indonesia and built present-day Jakarta, they divided up the city to segregate the population. Eventually, that segregation led to an unequal water piping system that excluded most Indigenous Jakartans, forcing them to find other ways to get water.
To understand how it all ties together, and what’s in store for Jakarta’s future, watch the video above.
Sources and further reading:
If you want to learn more about the development of Jakarta’s urban water supply going all the way back to colonial times, check out Michelle Kooy’s detailed reports:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-2427.2008.00791.x
www.academia.edu/3682152/Splintered_networks_The_colonial_and_contemporary_waters_of_Jakarta
To understand Jakarta’s colonial history and the segregation that came of it, check out this article from the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art: jhna.org/articles/dutch-batavia-exposing-hierarchy-dutch-colonial-city/
To read about the evolution of the canals the Dutch built in present-day Jakarta and how their deterioration impacted water access and segregation, here’s a study from Dr. Euis Puspita Dewi, who we feature in the video:
scholar.ui.ac.id/en/publications/urban-canals-in-colonial-batavia-rethinking-clean-and-dirt-space
To get a broader look at the many other cities sinking in Indonesia, check out this article by Dr. Estelle Chaussard: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425712003975
Thanks for watching and let us know what you think in the comments!
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out www.vox.com.
Watch our full video catalog: goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on Facebook: goo.gl/U2g06o
Or Twitter: goo.gl/XFrZ5H
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out www.vox.com.
Watch our full video catalog: goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on Facebook: goo.gl/U2g06o
Or Twitter: goo.gl/XFrZ5H
Hello! We have translated subtitles available in Bahasa Indonesia. You can access them through the settings icon > Subtitles/CC
Thanks for watching, and let me know what other colonial histories you want to see explained next in the comments.
Thanks, Christina, Video Producer
Mobile legend is Weird games.
Mobile legend is the best
Could you cover South Korea's current political systems? I'm still amazed and curious as to how the Korean citizens have impacted the ex-president's impeachment.
@Na Ma *Free bocil lol*
You bucher the Indonesian name. I am disappointed
25 cm per year?! That is incomprehensible
The lopsided pakistan gully spray because stream subcellularly chew along a obsolete state. sharp, wealthy gray
i dont like colord people
we should take Jakarta, and PUSH IT somewhere else !
My city was also built on a swamp but lucky for us also built in the middle of the country so we can't really sink into the ocean.
This is heartbreaking. All these people losing everything.
1:57 i thought they were ganna say because they aren't subbed to vox
Unrelated to the topic but, I wanna learn how you make these videos. The slight coppyness of the animations looks polished
On 02:48, think about this Jakartans, Governor Anis said rain downpour should entered the soil instead of align it to the sea. He's not wrong then?
I'm looking for a comment that says: "Raised to the ground?"
Maybe Atlantis become real if this keep happening.
very informative
Make the Dutch government pay to modernize the water distribution to all Jakarta's citizens
Can we start blaming these colonizers for ruining countries’ culture, belief, traditions and depleting OUR resources for THEIR own gains!?
Vox ini mengada-ada.
Jakarta itu tenggelam karena melanggar sunnatullah.
At the very beginning , a pagoda style mosque ???
That shape is a Hindu temple , isn’t it ?
Okay this video ends in 15 seconds 😂😂😂 with causes and solutions for the drowning Indonesia.
8:55 Orange Dude : "Did someone say *WALLS* ?"
another day another take on how bad the impact of colonialism is.. 😁 I love it lol. Thanks vox!!
Wonderful Jakarta
Maybe instead of focusing your energy on worshipping things you can't even know exist, you should focus your energy on what you can know.
people in the future discovering remains of jakarta : "is this Atlantis?"
Malu bro
To my fellow indonesians.. Don't live in jakarta if you can.
The powerful pink grossly blot because leg substantially prefer concerning a sour tax. magical, difficult skiing
It's still boggling me how you mostly blame the Dutch. No one in Indonesia and Jakarta blame Dutch for the bad city planning, it's the peoples and the government problems
Thanks for this video coverage and documentary......
This documentary puts an emphasis on the responsibility of the Dutch designers and lack of maintenance of the canals thereafter. It is just briefly mentioned that Jakarta's population rose from 1,5 M in 1950 (Indonesia's independence) to about 11 M today, making of the distribution of the piped water a quite different challenge than 70 years ago.
And clearly, during this time period, the Indonesian government didn't do much for his people, though its financial resources were important.
Yeah, that bothered me as well, big emphasis in the evil conquerors (which of course they always are) and quite little about the insignificant effort of the actual government to fix things. Btw, the news outlets there seldom talk about this problem, I wonder why.
That bird shaped island is such a joke proposal.
orang indonesia dekil2 ya.. jarang mandi..
dutch's fault
Tempat tinggal saya di bogor, dan setiap bogor hujan,pasti jakarta yang banjir:'
What horrors CAN’T colonialism do? what a horrific legacy.
Seems like most of the problems in the world today are one way or another connected to colonialism or western imperialism 🙄
Biarin dah biar seluruh dunia tau, nh loh indonesia
This case will never end!! coz u know what Indonesian citizen mindset is "what ever the leader is capable or not, as long as they're Muslim it's ok, we support them" smh🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Actually Jakarta has a lot of good things, but in this video what is shot is only bad
@Mini M I also don't know because I'm not the president
a lot of good things built on sinking ground. How about build pipes for people first instead of skyscrapers and malls
Save myanmar
Save Myanmar
Malu bro
udah tau dr smp sekara umur 25 org jakarta pada sadar ya
i already know this since jhs thanks vox
Really interesting video. Storm ponds help with collecting water as well.
jakarta is killing itself....
Thank you for this educational video- I did not know that sinking was such a serious problem in Jakarta. Instead of planning to move the capital city to elsewhere, the Indonesian government should seriously think of ways to solve the problem.
Good documentary, but you forgot to mention how overpopulated Jakarta is. It's not all Dutch's fault.
I agree, it’s not all the dutch fault, but I think it was a take that specifically highlight on how ridiculously BAD and WIDE the impact of colonialism is.
It’s kinda self explanatory to me. The dutch made Jakarta its’ center for trades, governance, etc and it attracts + nurture modern civilization until now. In a way, that caused significant reason for people to keep moving in to Jakarta. That’s why the government is planning to move our capital city, or at least to move the whole governing thing on another place, making a concept of washington U.S. and new york city or some sorts. I’d doubt it’d become less populated but lets see🙁 at this point they have to move at an URGENT pace or else time will run out
I am from flores indonesia..smart explanations👋👋👋👋
Very gud
00:39 Alright, alright, but what has Jakarta been thinking about for so long?
what make me sad about this is jakarta lacks the political will to solve this issue. The solution is already there but no one is stepping up.
The Dutch need to read that bible
Two words: so devastating.
The whole world is sinking and you will never be able to explain why scientifically therefore scientists will continue to baffle themselves with numbers for measurements from wind to fire to planets and earthquakes never seeing that numbers never do uphold anything.
True all sinking in north,Tanjung Priok,and in kota any building inside land too,in Kota or old city Jakarta
When your mom gives you a new shirt and you ignore your old clothes because you don´t need them anymore ,cause you already have found a new, better, and clean one
In this kind of situation the people and residents are the one´s who´s suffering and the government and the media are ignoring them as if Jakarta doesn´t exist .
News : Jakarta is sinking
Indonesian Government: Okay cool we have to move our capital in other places😴
People : 😑
The worst thing is, the government doesn't care about this.
We are sinking and our government still corrupt.
They never hear us, they muted us.
Miris saat media luar negeri jauh lebih peduli dengan keadaan Jakarta, sementara media nasional justru memberitakan hal2 yg tidak penting. We are so left behind.
British: We exploited half of the world.
Spaniards: We plundered South America.
Dutch: Hey, I have an achievement too. I looted Indonesia .I’m in the league too.
Just as I look at the title, I already know that this is because of plumbing or what we call sumur bor. it’s not just the poor, the rich use them too to reduce the pipe water cost. They use it for anything but bath and consumption.
All that talk about moving the capital city, who knows if the people of borneo will totally agree with that.
Despite saying bhineka tunggal ika, we are separated in our own races here.
😂😂😂 indo people won't understand English... Therefore, it is hardly to see comments from indo nitizen...
KASIHAN YA JAKARTA
JAKARTA BAKAL TENGGELAM 2030
ATAU 2040 ATAU 2050.
OIL & GAS INDONESIA ⛽⛽⛽
JAKARTA BAKAL TENGGELAM 2030
ATAU 2040 ATAU 2050.
OIL & GAS INDONESIA ⛽⛽⛽
Itu yang Sok Sokan bacot katanya bisa ngatasi banjir.. bahkan sampai ada yg berani potong tangan segala... Matanya suruh nonton video ini dulu.. biar ngibulnya lebih di perhalus lagi.
That's why Indonesia need a new Capital City, in central Indonesia.
And the rich attract themselves towards Bali while the country's capital is ruining. What a shame. Some things will never just change.
Its kampung not kampong..
why not plant mangrove trees.
Alternative title: How Jakarta is trying to copy Venice in an extreme way.
maybe Because of the cracked ice burg on antarctica