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Jakarta allocates Rp300B to expand green space
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Walk a bit to one side of Blok M Square to visit Taman Martha Tiahahu (Martha Tiahahu Park). Regarded as one of the most spacious parks in Jakarta, the park consists of a water fountain and animal statues. (JP/Devina Heriyanto)
The Jakarta administration has allocated Rp 300 billion (US$22.5 million) to expand the city’s green spaces this year.
There are currently more than 150 public suggestions on where to enlarge the public green spaces, according to Jakarta Forest Agency head Djafar Muchlisin.
“If the suggested area doesn’t have land certificates, then we won’t follow up. We only buy land with certificates,” he said on Monday as quote by beritajakarta.com.
Djafar said that his agency would assess all recommendations and conduct field surveys to ensure the condition of the land and assess the structures on it.
“Then we will check the zoning. We prefer land that is already zoned green,” said he.
Ten percent of the city's territory is now public green space, but the law requires regional governments to allocate 30 percent of land for green spaces.
Partly as a result of the lack of green space, the city’s temperature has steadily increased from year to year.
Geologists estimate that the city's temperature is 1.4 degrees Celsius higher than it was a century ago, double the world average, owing to a combination of global warming and proliferation of structures at the expense of green spaces.
