Jason Loghry, Birds Korea<\/p>\n
Basuki \u201cAhok\u201d Tjahaja Purnama, the acting Governor of Jakarta, has voiced that he is skeptical about the feasibility of the Giant Sea Wall project, a project worth (IDR)500 trillion, saying that it might not be an efficient way to tackle persistent flooding in the capital. Here are some of his reasons:<\/p>\n
” When I went to South Korea, I visited the Saemangeum sea wall to study it […] I concluded that it might not be as effective as we expected,\u201d he said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Ahok pointed out that the Saemangeum sea wall, which is located on the southwest coast of the Korean peninsula, was not without problems.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Koreans struggled to ensure that the water that flowed toward the sea wall was clean, so that it didn\u2019t turn into a lake of mud […] so they had to work on the rivers. But they only have two rivers, while Jakarta has 13 heavily polluted rivers. Thus, flushing [the mud] will be very problematic.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will also definitely limit the [range available for] fishermen, which means we will have to relocate them. With the Saemangeum sea wall, three fishermen recently died because they tried to fish in a dangerous area near the sea wall gate. This happened in an advanced country with advanced technology,\u201d Ahok said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI believe we have enough experts here in Jakarta. Technology and money are definitely not the issues. The real challenge in tackling the flood issue is corruption. I suspect that fraudulent practices [occur] in most infrastructure projects [undertaken] in Jakarta,\u201d he said.”<\/p>\n
You can read the full article here, at the Jakarta Post<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jason Loghry, Birds Korea Basuki \u201cAhok\u201d Tjahaja Purnama, the acting Governor of Jakarta, has voiced that he is skeptical about the feasibility of the Giant Sea Wall project, a project worth (IDR)500 trillion, saying that it might not be an … read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[765,73,766],"class_list":["post-13716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","tag-jakarta","tag-saemangeum","tag-sea-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13717,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13716\/revisions\/13717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdskoreablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}