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he Depok administration plans to reconstruct a six-hectare public forest park (Tahura) named Cagar Alam Depok, to be located in Pancoranmas district, next year. The park is intended to be a tourism site and city park.

The allocated budget for the reconstruction is Rp 20 billion (US$1.5 million) and the construction is planned to be completed in three years.

Depok Environment Agency head Wijayanto said on Sunday that the park would be a place for education, recreation as well as functioning as '€œthe city'€™s lungs'€.

'€œWe will build jogging tracks and rearrange vegetation by adding 23 new plant species to the existing 80,'€ he said as quoted by tempo.co, adding that planting and maintenance activities would be carried out in the first two months in a preliminary phase.

Wijayanto said the Depok administration was targeting the creation of 20,000 hectares of green open space or 30 percent of the total city'€™s area. Currently, the city had only 16.63 percent of open space.

'€œWe estimate to achieve the target by 2030, two years earlier than the determined period,'€ he said.