Jakarta This Morning: Bad Air, Sensitive Residents Asked To Be More Alert

Illustration of the view of a graded building shrouded in pollution smoke in Jakarta, (ANTARA)

JAKARTA - Air quality in DKI Jakarta, based on data from the IQAir air quality monitoring site, is the fifth worst in the world on Monday, June 2 morning.

Based on ANTARA's monitoring at 05.00 WIB, the air quality index (AQI) in Jakarta is at 140 or is categorized as unhealthy for sensitive groups with a PARTiculate matter (PM) 2.5.

The city with the worst air quality in the world is Addis Ababa, Ethiopian with an air quality index at 164. Then in second place followed by Dhaka, Bangladesh with 160 and in third place followed by Kinshasa, Congo with an air quality index with 156.

It is known that the DKI Jakarta Environment Agency (DLH) will imitate the world's big cities such as Paris and Bangkok in dealing with air pollution.

Learning from other cities, Bangkok has 1,000 air quality monitoring stations (SPKU), Paris has 400 SPKUs. Jakarta currently has 111 SPKUs from the previous five units. In the future, we will increase the number so that it can intervene more quickly and accurately," said Head of DLH DKI Jakarta Asep Kuswanto.

He added that data disclosure is an important step in improving air quality systematically.

Asep said that the submission of air pollution data must be more open so that intervention can be more effective.

He considered that what was needed was not only temporary intervention, but continuous and extraordinary steps in dealing with air pollution.

DLH DKI Jakarta targets the addition of 1,000 low-cost air quality sensors (low-cost sensors) to make monitoring wider and more accurate.