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Jakarta Citizens Sue Government Over Polluted Air

Amanda Siddharta

   JAKARTA - Retno Daru's doctor told her to limit her outdoor activity
   and put her on medication to help relieve her swollen nasal passages
   inflamed by pollution in Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta.

   This is not an easy task for the English teacher who spends a lot of
   time outside often taking motorbike taxis to get around the congested
   city and exercising outdoors.

   "It's really inconvenient, because I swim and now I can't," she said.

   The air pollution in Indonesia's capital has become so bad that Jakarta
   regularly tops real-time charts of the world's most polluted cities.

   [1]Swiss-based app Air Visuals ranks cities in real-time based on an
   Air Quality Index (AQI) of 0500, with scores of 151-200 being
   "unhealthy" and 201-300 deemed "very unhealthy." On June 25, Jakarta
   peaked at an AQI of 231.

References

   1. https://www.airvisual.com/indonesia/jakarta

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