Why Jakarta is sinking

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How irony it is that "the city is sinking because the people living in it don't have enough water"

Scientist: Jakarta is sinking! Indonesian media: Look what this celebrity is gonna do today!

Floods? You mean the annual Jakarta public waterpark? It gets so popular we almost hold it every month now.

Melihat bapak2 ni kata “mahu kemana lagi”..hati saya jadi sayu😔..moga dipermudahkan semuanya..salam dari Msia🇲🇾..

as indonesian this particular problem never being aired in our national television, but foreign media always give a information about this problem maybe most of indonesian will never know about jakarta is sinking. so thank you Vox.

what saddens me is our national media doesn’t even produce such amazing educational video like this

That man said, We are a Trapped People. I cannot imagine the heartache and desolation of that. God help us as a people.

As someone who's Indonesian and has been to Jakarta multiple times, I can say the ground water pumping thing is accurate and has become a real problem. This definitely needs to reach to Jakarta at some point as news, but from what I've seen, it's been neglected for the longest time, and as long as you can make a living in Jakarta, nobody will care. People need to do something.

As someone from Jakarta, we all know this is happening, but no one seems to care enough to do anything about it. It seems like foreign media cares more and we've just accepted defeat.

"we are moving the capitol of Indonesia" me: "we are moving the rich people again, good luck everybody else"

When the capital is in crisis, the politicians have a great response by moving the capital to a new city. Now the capital does not have a crisis. Egypt is doing the same thing too!

Thank you! As an Indonesian living in part of Jakarta, I'm concerned with the issue yet do not have the technical knowledge nor eloquence to explain the matter precisely. Thank you so much for the informative video :)

Even the Indonesian government acted like the Dutch: Shift the capital somewhere else and leave the citizens behind

Indonesian government considering moving their capital. Indonesian Government: We are gonna do what's in the profession called a dutch move.

Thank you for uploading this, indonesia usually just airs gossips about viral celebs for random reasons that arent really important. As an indonesian, who lives in jakarta, i didn't even know that this condition was happening in jakarta.. i feel kinda ashamed for not knowing this sooner. I also feel embaressed that my country usually just ignore these kinds of problems happening in our country.

I find it quite ironic that it's a dutch company that was hired to fix this problem

As always the poor people are the ones that end up suffering.

Jakarta: sinks The government: Aight, Imma head out.

I only knew about Jakarta sinking in 2015 (when I was 15). As an internet addicted teen, I happened to come across an international news article and also some YouTube videos explaining about it as well, how the foundation keeping Jakarta from sinking collapsing due to digging illegal wells. The sinking didn't happen now, it has been happening over decades but it's ironic that news about Jakarta sinking and government's plans to move the capital city to Borneo happened to gain popularity only around 2019. The awareness of this urgent matter comes extremely late to the locals. Now it's all forgotten again and everyone in Jakarta here put it in the back of their minds lol. i'm in north of jakarta weeee one day i'll wake up floating