Jakarta Occupies The Positions Of The Four Worst Airs In The World

Photos of the air from the City of Jakarta/Bitor Ekin Putra

JAKARTA - Air quality in Jakarta on Monday morning is categorized as unhealthy and occupies the fourth position as the city with the worst air in the world.

Quoted from ANTARA, Monday, September 23, data on the IQAir air quality monitoring site at 05.50 WIB, the air quality index (AQI) in Jakarta is at 157 or is categorized as unhealthy with PM2.5 air pollution and a concentration value of 64 micrograms per cubic meter.

This concentration is equivalent to 12.8 times the annual air quality guide value of the World Health Organization (WHO). PM 2.5 is an air particle that is small in size from 2.5 microns (micrometers).

The category is unhealthy, namely the air quality 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 with a PM2.5 range of more than 100.

The moderate category, namely the quality of the air that has no effect on human or animal health but has an effect on plants that are sensitive and aesthetic value with a PM2.5 range of 51-100.

While the category is good, namely the level of air quality that 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 the air quality can be detrimental to health in a number of segments of the exposed population.

Lastly, dangerous (300-500) or in general its air quality can harm people's serious health in the population.

The city with the worst air quality in first place is from Lahore (Pakistan) at 184, second in Dhaka (Bangladesh) at 180, third in Delhi (India) at 168 and fourth in Jakarta (Indonesia) at 157.

Previously, the DKI Jakarta Environmental Agency (DLH) had launched an integrated air quality monitoring platform as a result of monitoring at 31 points of the Air Quality Monitoring Station (SPKU) spread across the metropolitan city.

From the SPKU, then the data obtained is displayed through the air quality monitoring platform as a refinement of the existing ones and in accordance with the applicable standards nationally.

This page also displays data from 31 SPKUs in Jakarta that integrate data from SPKUs belonging to DLH Jakarta, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG), the World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia and Vital Strategis.

Thus, data regarding air quality in Jakarta can be presented more comprehensively.