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View all search resultsGreater Jakarta, recently dubbed the world’s most populous urban area by the United Nations, has long been afflicted by smog coming from, among other sources, internal combustion engine vehicles and coal-powered power plants and industrial areas.
Aside from expanding the number of air quality monitoring stations, the city's environment agency has urged Jakartans to do their bit by using public transportation, avoiding open waste burning and making other environmentally conscious efforts to reduce the air pollution that has been choking Jakarta for months.
The decline in PM2.5 is in line with the trend of people working from home after the Jakarta administration declared last week an emergency situation, prompting some companies to implement a social distancing measure to prevent COVID-19 from spreading further.
A March 2019 report from the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) says that Indonesians could expect to lose 1.2 years of life expectancy, while Jakartans could lose nearly double that at 2.3 years of life expectancy.
The poor air quality of Indonesia's capital city is back in the spotlight as air quality monitor Airvisual determined that Jakarta ranks as the city with worst air pollution in the world on Thursday afternoon.
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