MALADIES OF DHAKA (Bangladesh), JAKARTA (Indonesia)

With global temperature rising and ice sheets melting, which causes sea level to rise, plenty of coastal cities across the world are facing impending risks of flooding, water logging or going under water. Few islands like Maldives, Togo and deltaic land Bangladesh face crucial challenges. The Indonesian city of Jakarta is no exception to these places under threat of climate change.

Metropolitans like Jakarta and Dhaka capital cities of Indonesia and Bangladesh- are met with rapid urbanization, land use and population growth. These two mega metropolitan areas have many things in common to be dogged by of course some in uncommon. Concentration of wealth is a cause of concern which is hardly addressed in the heydays of capitalism. Anyway both of the Asian cities are unsustainable. Indonesia has decided to discard jeopardized Jakarta - the Indonesian capital which is a conglomeration of 32 million people. Despite of plethora of problems plaguing Dhaka, it is not being discarded anytime soon but it was divided into north and south city corporations several years ago aiming at reaching the benefits of city corporations. All the efforts to ensure services to all the citizens went in vain as promises and pie crusts are always made to be broken.

Since the city’s early days, flooding has been a problem because Jakarta is situated along several rivers that swell during the monsoon season. With mean global sea level rising by 3.3 millimeter per year and amid signs that rainstorms are getting more intense as the atmosphere heats up and damaging floods have become common.

Rapid urbanization, land use and population growth have exacerbated the problem of Jakarta as is the case with Dhaka. The evolution of the city over the past three decades. The widespread replacement of forests and other vegetation impervious services in inland areas along the Cisadane river has reduced how much the water, the landscape can absorb contributing the run off flash floods. With the population of the metropolitan area more than doubling between 1990 and 2020, more people have crowded into high risk floodplains.

The plan to construct a huge sea wall is still in place but it may not be enough to save Jakarta from it’s current situation with environmental pressures mounting Indonesia politicians hope to move the seat of government from Jakarta to the island of Borneo. With most of the urban problems experienced in twenty first century southeast Asia.

Population in Jakarta

Jakarta has been the capital of Indonesia since the Dutch colonial era and the economical, commercial and transportation center of the nation. The population of Jakarta in 1900 was about 115000. After independence however the population of Jakarta increased by nearly three times five decades to 1.43 million people by 1950. With a whopping population of 21,741,000 its the 6th most densely populated city in the world occupied by around 29,029 people per squire km (wright, 2020)

Motor vehicles

Rapid urbanization in the megacity of Jakarta caused a wide range of urban problems in the last few decades. Jakarta is estimated to lose us $3 billion a year because of traffic congestion which should not be separated from the high growth rate of vehicle ownership. Another reason for motorcycle growth plummeting is because the people living in the outskirts of Jakarta cam save as mush as 30% of their transportation costs by using motorcycles to go to work rather than using public transport to go to work.

The number of motorcycle users in Bangladesh has grown rapidly in the past few years. According to BRTA, the number of registered motorcycles increased about four times in the last decade, from 759,257 in 2010 to 2,991,612 in 2020. Due to rapid increase in the number of vehicles, air pollution in Dhaka has been the most over the last few months. In consequence, the air of Dhaka has been the most polluted one.

Traffic congestion

Almost two thirds of population live in the outskirts of the mega city of Jakarta. In the mega city of Jakarta there are school, college,restaurants, hospitals, parks, cinema halls, supermarkets and other necessary places where people need to go for their daily lives, all of them are situated in the center. Unless there are reliable, accessible and affordable public transportation modes that connect the center and the outskirts of the mega city of Jakarta.

Pollutions in Dhaka

Dhaka city’s common problems are increase in water pollution, traffic congestion air pollution, noise pollution, solid waste disposal, black smoke and poisonous gas etc. Jakarta water, air, noise etc. pollution, which are widely reported in the international mega, are also making the city.

Both cities have almost similar waste management system collect transport dispose. Dhaka alone produces around 5000 metric tone's of trash whereas Jakarta, which is half of Dhaka in terms of population but double in size, produces over 7000 metric tonnes of trash. Despite having specific locations for dumping the waste unscrupulous citizens throw a banana peel or a plastic waste which is a great environment concern for the city corporation.