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DANGEROUS PLACE INQUIRY

Jakarta, Indonesia faces significant challenges related to poverty and accessibility to essential services. Over 28 million people in Indonesia live in poverty, with Jakarta experiencing an increased poverty rate.

DANGEROUS PLACE INQUIRY

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JAKARTA, INDONESIA

WHY CARE

Are there any orginizations supporting Indonesia?
"CARE" is a global organization leading to end poverty, save lives, and achieve social justice. CARE believes in urgent actions and innovation within the world and their organization

Is Indonesia Important?

Indonesia is more important than you may think. they have lots of volcanoes that are necessary for research, they have animals that are native to their land like jave rhinos indonesia is also the biggest producer of palm oil and is a extremely ethnically and culturally diverse city.

EDUCATION

Does Indonesia educate their people on what to do in the event of an earthquake?
Indonesia needs to put more focus on earthquake education. sometimes the reason earthquakes cause so much damage and death is because the people dont know what to do. although it is hard to predict when a earthquake will occur, indonesians must be ready.

Indonesia should enforce practices like the "drop cover and hold method" this method involves descending to the ground with your hands and knees on the floor while covering your head and neck with your arms. Indonesians should also be encouraged to develop emergency plans within their family so that in the event of a earthquake they know what to do and where to go.

Main topic

SOCIAL

How do the earthquakes affect the people of Jakarta?
Earthquakes in Jakarta have been known to kill over hundreds to thousands to hundreds of thousands of people.

If Jakarta does not start preparing and figuring out ways to prevent the extreme loss of life the city might completely be abandoned with no signs of life.

ECOLOGIC

How does it affect the surrounding environment?
Earthquakes can cause landslides which can destroy the surrounding environment. earthquakes can also cause huge tsunamis which can wipe out forests.

Jakarta contains alot of debris in certain areas, this debris can be carried by tsunamis and the water can be contaminated.

The contaminated water can resurface and impact the poor community of Jakarta because they don't have access to clean water.

This may affect some endangered species like the javan rhino or the javan blue banded kingfisher.

Is there a risk for pollution?

Chariteristics

Is Jakarta urban or rural?
Jakarta is urban.

This is dangerous because urban cities tend to have lots of buildings and infrastructure. seismic activity is known to be heavily amplified when around buildings, most of the risk from earthquakes are actually the buildings falling down upon citizens.

What is the population density?

Jakarta has a population densiy of 14 464 people per square km.

14 464 is a very high population density. this also amplifies the risk of disasters. if a earthquake were to occur with so many people scrambling around it is harder to mass evacuate people quickly, it also results in increased levels of panic. this makes survival chances low.

ACCESIBILITY

Do people in jakarta have access to proper services?
There are over 28 million people considered to be poor in Indonesia. Jakarta has recently started to have an increased poverty rate the multidimensional poverty index (MPI) uses 10 indicators to determine how poor someone is. these indicators include things like education and health. to be deemed poor a person must not have access to at least 3 out of the 10 indicators. 20.8 percent of people in Jakarta dont have access to multiple of the indicators 12.2 percent of people are at risk to deprivation of the indicators.

When it comes to seismic activity, it can severely affect ones financial status. most of Jakarta is poor, this means the aftermath will be hard to recover from with no money for things like healthcare and housing.

ECONOMIC

How much do earthquake damages cost on average?
Damage to infastructure and homes in indonesia can cost over 5 trillion rupiah ( 350 million dollars )

Places like Jakarta cannot afford damages like these. this makes the result of seismic activity even more disastrous than ever.

Will preliminary measures be effective in reducing repair costs?

Investing in stronger buildings, warning sirens, and education for emergency evacuation will definitely help in making the disasters impact not as huge.

GEOLOGIC

Considering current seismic activity, is Jakarta at risk for a devastating earthquake?
Jakarta gets earthquakes often, but warnings have been issued for a potential 8.7 magnitude earthquake.

This is especially bad because an earthquake of that high of a magnitude is more than capable of turning Jakarta into ruins. the earthquake may strike whenever and that could be the end of many lives.

What tectonic plates are in proximity with Jakarta?
This is dangerous for Jakarta because there is a higher chance of seismic activity if you are close to many converging plates.
The tectonic plates surrounding Jakarta are the Pacific plate Eurasian plate and Indo-Australian plate. These plates are all converging.

LOCATION

What is the abseloute location of Jakarta?
6.2088° S, 106.8456° E

Where is Jakarta relatively located?

Jakarta is situated on the northwest corner of the island of java bordering the jave sea.

Being close to a body of water is particularly dangerous. If a earthquake were to occur there would be a high chance of a tsunami. Tsunamis have proven time and time again to be even more dangerous than the quake itself.

Is there a volcano risk?

there are many volcanoes near Jakarta at risk of erupting. some of these include kiaraberes gagak and salak.

If one of these were to erupt it would severely affect Jakarta and the surrounding environmental features, many people live by volcanoes and would be severely impacted almost surely losing their life. the volcanic ash emitted from volcanoes is also very detrimental to human health

WHAT

What is Jakarta?
Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia, it is Indonesias most populous and largest city.

What is Jakarta known for?

Jakarta is infamously known for having many volcanoes in the surrounding area.

Having multiple volcanoes around only magnifies the risk of a natural disaster, as if tsunamis and earthquakes weren't enough, the people of Jakarta are constantly in a gamble for their life.