Saturday Morning, Jakarta's Air Quality Enters The Top 10 Worst In The World

Air Pollution (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Air quality in Jakarta is in the top 10 as the city with the worst air in the world on Saturday morning, September 14. Where, Jakarta is in eighth place.

Quoting Antara, based on data from the IQAir air quality monitoring site at 05.00 WIB, the Air Quality Index (AQI) in Jakarta is at 69 or is in the moderate category.

The air quality of the medium category, namely if the air quality does not affect human or animal health but affects plants that are sensitive and the aesthetic value with a PM2.5 range of 51-100.

While the air quality category is not healthy, namely the air is unhealthy for sensitive groups because it can harm humans or groups of animals that are sensitive or can cause damage to plants or aesthetic values.

Then, the good category is the level of air quality which does not have an effect on human or animal health and does not affect plants, buildings or aesthetic values with a PM2.5 range of 0-50.

Then, the category is very unhealthy with a PM2.5 range of 200-299 or its air quality can be detrimental to health in a number of segments of the exposed population. Finally, it is dangerous (300-500) or in general its air quality can harm the population's serious health.

The worst-order city of air quality is Kuwait City (Kuwait) at 293, second-placed Kamparala (Uganda) at 166, third-placed Kinshasa (Kongo) at 137, second-placed Johannesburg (Africa) at 132 and fifth-placed Sao Paulo (Brazil) at 112.

Rank sixth Tashkent (Uzbekistan) number 110, seventh in Dubai (UAE) at 105, ninth in Cairo City (Egypt) at 96, and tenth in Karachi (Pakistan) at 96.