The impact of global warming can not be inevitable by all people in the world including the citizens of Jakarta. Research from the International Institute for Environment and Development Britinia collaboration with City University of New York and Columbia University in 2007, mentions that one-tenth the population of the earth, or 634 million people who live near the sea will drown when the polar ice melting due to global warming the earth. The study also predicts that the whole of DKI Jakarta, West Java and Banten in part is an area that will be submerged at the latest until the end of this century.
Predikisi stating Jakarta will sink as the impact of global warming should be used as a kind of early warning for city officials to no longer produce policies, which were to exacerbate these effects for their citizens. Ironically, spatial planning in Jakarta from year to year even more environmentally unfriendly. This is evident by the reduced area of green open space (green space) and water catchment areas in urban spatial structure from year to year.
Data BPLHD Jakarta says that in 2005, taking groundwater that is massive without offset by water that can enter the soil due to loss of green space and water catchment areas causing lead this city has experienced soil water deficit amounted to 66.65 million m3 / per year in that year. Water deficit will also cause the soil surface decreased in Jakarta. As a result, when the sea water rises due to global warming then the city would be submerged. Unfortunately, instead of revising the policies that are not environmentally friendly, the Jakarta Government and instead insisted on reclaiming the North Coast (northern) Jakarta to ignore the Ministerial Decree (Decree) Negeara Environment No. 14 of 2003 which claimed impropriety environment of the reclamation project. Some experts and environmental activists also thinks the northern Jakarta reclamation project will potentially worsen flooding in the city.
For this reason the Jakarta Environmental Caucus as an organization concerned about environmental issues in urban local government and parliament urged Jakarta to immediately reform the city layout as a whole in order to mitigate and adapt to the impacts of global warming. Rehabilitation of green space and other water catchment areas and the cessation of the reclamation project northern Jakarta is some agenda that must be included in the spatial restructuring of Jakarta.
To support the agenda that the Jakarta Government should immediately issue a moratorium on the policy (pause) the construction of new commercial areas in the city and gradually merelokasikannya out of Jakarta. Without the moratorium policy and relocation of commercial areas in Jakarta, the urban spatial restructuring effort to anticipate the impact of global warming just a lip service only.
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