Jakarta's 2nd Highest Air Pollution World Today

The multilevel building is disguised by the fog of air pollution in Jakarta, Friday, June 17, 2022. (ANTARA-Aprillio A)

JAKARTA - Air quality in Jakarta is not healthy for sensitive groups on Sunday, July 28 this morning. This condition makes Jakarta ranked second as the city with the worst air quality or polluting in the world. Citing data on the IQAir air quality monitoring site at 07.10 WIB via Antara, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Jakarta is in 2nd place with 177 numbers or is included in an unhealthy category with PM2.5 air pollution and a concentration value of 93 micrograms per cubic meter. This figure has an explanation that its air quality level is unhealthy for groups is sensitive because it can harm humans or groups of animals that are sensitive or can cause damage to plants or aesthetic values. While the category is good, namely the level of air quality that does not have an effect on human or animal health and has no effect on plants, buildings or aesthetic values with a range of PM2.5 of 0-50. Then, the medium category, namely its air quality that does not affect human or animal health but affects sensitive plants and aesthetic values with a PM2.5 range of 51-100.

Then, the very unhealthy category with a PM2.5 range of 200-299 or its air quality can harm health in a number of exposed segments of the population. Lastly, dangerous (300-500) or in general its air quality can harm the health of the population seriously. The city with worst-order air quality is Kinshasa (Kongo) at 180, third-order Medan City (Indonesia) at 165, fourth-order Nairobi (Kenya) at 158 and fifth-order Johannesburg (South Africa) (at 134.DH) DKI Environmental Service added two water cylinders (watermist) as an effort to suppress air pollution in Jakarta. Head of DLH DKI Jakarta Asep Kuswanto said that later the car will operate around Jakarta to continue watering activities on protocol roads. This car has a range capability of 50 meters and a water tank capacity of 5,000 liters. This "waterist" operation will be included in the draft arrangement of governor regulations to be more regulatory. "In the future, for the 'watermist' policy we will try to strengthen it by governor regulations," he said.