Ridwan Kamil: Spatial Injustice Triggers Floods To Pollution In Jakarta

The candidate pair (paslon) for governor and deputy governor number 1, Ridwan Kamil-Suswono arrived at the Sultan Hotel, Central Jakarta. (ANTARA/Siti Nurhaliza)

JAKARTA - The DKI Jakarta KPU held a third and final debate between the candidate pair for governor and deputy governor in the 2024 DKI Pilkada at the Sultan Hotel, Central Jakarta, Sunday night. The themes raised in the final debate are "City and Climate Change". The problems of flood management, settlement arrangement, and waste management are included in the scope or sub-them of the third debate.

The theme raised in the final debate is "City and Climate Change". The problems of flood management, settlement arrangement, and waste management are included in the scope or sub-them of the third debate.

Candidate for governor of DKI Jakarta number 1, Ridwan Kamil (RK) assessed that the spatial injustice in this city resulted in a number of problems such as floods, garbage and pollution.

"The inequality of spatial planning has resulted in expensive flooding in the North, due to climate change as well as our lifestyle. The land has dropped, we can discuss a combination of 'giant sea wall' mangrove solutions," said Ridwan Kamil when delivering his vision and mission in the third debate of the 2024 Jakarta Pilkada at the Sultan Hotel, Jakarta, Sunday night, as quoted by Antara.

According to him, the waste problem also accompanies spatial injustice.

"We have to implement the concept of 'zero waste' (storage-free lifestyle). We will innovate the concept of economic circulars," said Kang Emil, Ridwan Kamil's nickname.

Spatial injustice, he continued, also results in pollution, but can be resolved ecologically and technologically.

"Everything we feel today is the accumulation of spatial injustice. Spatial politics, political segregation from the colonial era, as a result we feel today," said the former governor of West Java.

Therefore, it is the duty of the candidate pair Ridwan-Suswono (RIDO) with all its innovations to bring (room planning) back.

"It doesn't always have to be regulated by market law, but the state must be present," he said.

Ridwan Kamil also mentioned that one of the residents of Cilincing named Ade (21) who was present with him was unable to have proper housing, especially since Ade already had two children.

"This can bury his dream of having decent housing in Jakarta. To make life difficult, this is the accumulation of spatial injustice. It boils down to extreme economics, some are similar to evacuations," he said.

This is very different from Sudirman, Thamrin yang nclong, yang sering dicitrakan.

"As a result, the majority is this. Water is difficult, pollution when it is dry, floods when it rains, garbage is run out everywhere," he said.

Therefore, said Kang Emil, the role of the state must be present for them.

"We are preparing a house renovation program. I used to do Rp. 20 million per house, maybe in Jakarta because it was expensive, 50 to 100 million per house. Vertical housing, for Gen Z, we have dreams, it could be in Central Jakarta, land above the market, TOD at stations, land on roads and in the middle of the river we can also innovate," he said.

The RIDO pair will also present a new economy because Jakarta will become a global city.

"The economy of the business center is distributed throughout Jakarta. Then the economy, a special economic zone in the north and others, produces one million jobs. Building Jakarta is building by collaboratively half the people's ideas, half the leaders' ideas," said Kang Emil.