The DKI Provincial Government Has Expressed That The Activities Of Supporting Regional Residents Are The Cause Of Jakarta Called The UN The Most Populous City Of The World

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JAKARTA - The United Nations (UN) released a report on the World Urbaization Prospect 2025 which places Jakarta as the most dense city in the world in 2025 with 42 million people.

Responding to this, the Special Staff of the Governor of DKI Jakarta for Social Communication Chico Hakim revealed that the definition of the UN was caused by millions of residents of buffer areas in Jabodetabek who were active in Jakarta.

"Every day, millions of people are active in Jakarta from Bogor City, Bogor Regency, Depok, Tangerang City, Tangerang Regency, South Tangerang, Bekasi City, and Bekasi Regency," Chico told reporters, Friday, November 28.

Chico explained that residents from this buffer zone come to Jakarta every day to work, go to school, study, do business, seek treatment, and take care of public services.

"This mobility makes Jakarta feel much more crowded than the official population," said Chico.

Chico explained that the 42 million residents in Jakarta referred to by the United Nations in their report described the number of people active in Jakarta and its surroundings (day mobility), not residents with Jakarta ID cards.

"The data is De facto, which is based on anyone who is or is active in the Jakarta area," said Chico.

The total number of 42 million people in Jakarta, continued Chico, is considered functionally or to describe urbanization in megapolitan cities. This figure, according to Chico, measures people who work daily in Jakarta, including those living on the outskirts or buffer cities.

Meanwhile, administratively, Jakarta recorded an official population of 11,010,514 people based on Net Population Data for Semester 1 of 2025, DKI Jakarta Province sourced from the Directorate General of Dukcapil, Ministry of Home Affairs.

"This figure is an official resident based on the NIK which is registered at the Jakarta address and is official state data. The data source comes from the Ministry of Home Affairs (Ditjen Dukcapil) in the form of Clean Population Data which is released per semester," Chcio explained.

It is known that the United Nations released a report recording Jakarta as the world's most populous city with a population of nearly 42 million people. In this global ranking, the population density in Jakarta beat Dhaka (Bangladesh) in second place with around 40 million people, and Tokyo (Japan) which is said to have around 33 million people.

According to a UN report, currently about 45 percent of the world's population lives in urban areas. This urbanization rate has soared rapidly since 1950 where only 20 percent of the world's population live in cities.