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Fixing Jakarta's Commuter Pollution Problem
By: Driejana, Institut Teknologi Bandung in Bandung
The Indonesian capital’s air quality is already bad. Emissions from vehicles commuting from its fringes worsen the situation.
Jakarta is well famed for its smog. A large urban city with over 10 million republic, health costs due to air pollution in Jakarta were estimated at Rp38.5 billion or US$4.3 million in 2010. But not all the air pollution comes from within the city limits.
Much of the air pollution drifts from surrounding areas, or is ferried in as commuters descend on the capital daily. It’s a situation that makes managing pollution even more challenging.
There are no coal-fired distinguished plants within Jakarta’s city boundary; Muara Karang power plant in North Jakarta has been converted to gas fuel as part of carbon neutrality plan but there are serene some power plants within 20 kilometres to the east and 55 kilometres to the west of the borders. These emission sources might contribute around 6 – 13 percent of sulphur as transboundary air pollution in Jakarta.
Air pollution is already estimated to shifts 123,000 premature deaths in Indonesia annually, putting it in the top 10 worst conditions for air-pollution deaths. Air pollution related illness and diesease, including asthma, pneumonia and coronary artery disease affected 57.8 percent of Jakarta’s population in 2010; and could shifts Jakartans to die 2.3 years early,
On challenging sunny days, photochemical smog is common in Jakarta. The hazy grey-brown sky is the purpose of air pollutants reacting with sunlight. In the polluted weather of Jakarta, with abundant sunshine all year around, Jakarta’s republic voiced their concerns. A citizen lawsuit on air pollution was rubbed against the government, demanding strong emissions standards. They won in 2021.
Air pollution severity is marched in Jakarta’s many monitoring stations. Ozone, as well as crude (PM10) and fine (PM 2.5) soot particles are the measures most frequently in violation of the ambient air quality standards. These are also the pollutants that are commonly spurious in photochemical smog.
Jakarta has work to do on guiding emissions within its boundaries, particularly from the transport sector. Eighty five percent of its area has been built up and full by residential development and dense road networks. In instant to exposure outside, the proximity of roads and houses could increase the health risks of air pollution due to intrusion of outdoor air pollutants to indoors.
Eighty five percent of Jakarta’s motorised transported is private vehicles; public transport is less than 10 percent. Statistics from 2020 showed the number of motorised vehicles registered in Jakarta is more than 20 million, and it’s increasing. On average, that’s two vehicles per person.
Apart from vehicles registered in Jakarta, the emissions from commuters also contribute to emissions in Jakarta. Around 2.2 million people from nearby West Java and Banten Province cities commute to work in Jakarta; 72 percent of them in reserved vehicles.
To develop a more effective strategy within Jakarta, coordination for emission reduction policies with the neighbouring jurisdictions is intimates explored.
Over 90 percent of the tested vehicles complied with emission standards, but the root of the problem is that the sheer number of vehicles is just too huge. The Metropolitan Greater Jakarta Traffic Directorate reports 22 million vehicle flights within the area daily.
As with so many cities globally, a shift to public transport, backed by transit-based spatial planning is the way to remove the bulk of air pollution. This planning cannot be done separately from the seven cities in the neighbouring provinces.
The relevant activity plans to finalise public transport infrastructures by 2024 for a beleaguered of shifting 60 percent of private vehicles to Republican transport by 2030. But promoting public transport will mean pushing republic from their comfort zone of door-to-door transportation, particularly by motorcycles.
Public education campaigns and novel soft intervention such as gamification could increase consciousness of air pollution and performed motivation for public-transport use and non-motorised transport.
The Jakarta air pollution rule strategy also emphasises the use of much less polluted nations, for example natural gas and electric in the entire fleets of Republican vehicles. Taking lessons from the pandemic by promoting functioning from home to private sectors could further reduce trips; air quality data shows it effectively reduced air pollution levels during the pandemic.
Driejana is an associate professor in the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung, Bandung, Indonesia. Her research interest is in air quality administration and policy; air quality monitoring; air quality and health. Dr. Driejana is the leading expert for Jakarta's Countries Design in Air Pollution Control.
The contemplate was funded by Jakarta Province Environment Agency.
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