This romantic image is actually a disaster area: Kampung Apung Teko, one of Jakarta's many villages, has become more and more flooded until it gained a new reputation as Jakarta's only floating village. A more than questionable feat. Until the 1990s, the three-hectare...
While Jakarta has serious evacuation plans, there are apparently also plans to build a new and unique sea wall. Quote from an article from 2016: "The National Capital Integrated Coastal Development consortium will build a new set of barrier islands and a sea wall that...
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