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View all search resultsThe President has set up a new body to manage the mega seawall project on Java's northern coast, leaving observers wondering about its feasibility and capacity amid a swelling bureacracy and a strained budget.
While Java is often linked with large-scale development, adopting nature-based solutions and sustainable flood management presents a more prudent path for the island's future, rather than hastily implementing the "Giant Sea Wall" project.
The government is putting together a study on the planned US$60 billion mega seawall project along the northern coast of Java in a bid to address land subsidence in Jakarta and protect coastal communities from rising sea levels due to climate change.
BMKG chair Dwikorita Karnawati said in a press briefing on Thursday that cities worst affected by flooding in the northern part of Central Java like Pekalongan, Semarang and Demak, also experienced severe cases of land subsidence.
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