JAKARTA - IQAir data shows that the air quality in DKI Jakarta is the 11th worst in the world on Saturday morning, May 17.
Quoting Antara, based on observations at 05.45 WIB, the air quality index (AQI) in Jakarta is at 114 or is categorized as unhealthy for sensitive groups with a PARTiculate matter (PM) 2.5.
The city with the worst air quality in the world is Lahore, Pakistan with an air quality index of 171. Then in second place followed by the City of Kuwait, Kuwait at 160.
Then in third place followed by Chengdu, China at 158, then in fourth place there is Dubai, United Arab Emirates at 153.
It is known that the DKI Jakarta Environment Agency (DLH) will imitate the world's big cities such as Paris and Bangkok in dealing with air pollution.
Learning from other cities, Bangkok has 1,000 Air Quality Monitoring Stations (SPKU), Paris has 400 SPKUs. Jakarta currently has 111 SPKUs from the previous 5 units. In the future we will increase the number in order to intervene more quickly and accurately," said the Head of DLH DKI Jakarta Asep Kuswanto.
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He added that data disclosure is an important step in improving air quality systematically.
Asep said that the submission of air pollution data must be more open so that intervention can be more effective. He considered that what was needed was not only temporary intervention, but continuous and extraordinary steps in dealing with air pollution.
DLH DKI Jakarta targets the addition of 1,000 low-cost air quality sensors (low-cost sensors) to make monitoring wider and more accurate.
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