JAKARTA, Indonesia's MEGACITY | Saving Earth's Second Largest City

Jakarta, the world's second-largest city and the capital of Indonesia, is sinking into the sea. This is the effort to save it. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 1:11 Welcome to Jakarta 2:55 'Urban planning gone horribly wrong' 3:09 History of Jakarta 3:56 Suharto comes to power 4:30 Land subsidence explained 4:56 Sinking 3x faster 5:29 Historic flooding 6:32 Raising their homes 7:15 The problems with channelization 8:34 Floodplain development 9:15 Kampungs resettlement 10:55 The rising sea 11:47 Great Garuda Sea Wall Megaproject 12:48 A New Capital: Nusantara 14:11 Questions surrounding Nusantara 15:19 A City worth saving 16:21 Piped water for all 16:58 Creating more greenspace 17:30 Building an aquatic metropolis 18:07 Floodproof homes 19:12 Tiny homes on stilts 19:44 How Kampung Tongkal was saved Key sources and videos quoted: Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown https://bit.ly/3Kmn4oj Jakarta is Sinking! https://youtu.be/qOSwBIstZUs Jakarta is the World's Fastest Sinking City https://youtu.be/dNE5aptbGyY Asia's Sinking Cities: Jakarta https://youtu.be/M3M9KGPMkoo Jakarta Kota Air (Part 1) https://youtu.be/UR_jL-x4W3M Jakarta Unfair (Full Version) https://youtu.be/wCjbxuXv92U Why Jakarta is sinking https://youtu.be/Z9cJQN6lw3w Indonesia Pollution: Jakarta tries to clean world's filthiest river https://youtu.be/QpKr2qaxXto Let It Flood: Ciliwung Delta by Bindi Purnama https://bit.ly/3PKERqB Subscribe for weekly city profiles: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ All other research links: Indonesia's new capital https://youtu.be/HvQJiVTeDoc 34 million urban area population http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf Demographics, economy of Indonesia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia Employment shift to services from agriculture https://bit.ly/3PQMTxZ World's second-longest coastline https://bit.ly/2T66SfJ Jakarta growth from space 1990-2019 https://go.nasa.gov/3An8994 Capitalism and the Dutch East India Company (Batavia) https://youtu.be/zPIhMJGWiM8 Indonesian Independence 1945 https://youtu.be/G2ZTwL9-KPY Fewer than 1 million have access to piped water https://bit.ly/3ct5mmy Sinking 3 times faster than a few years earlier https://bit.ly/3ALgLYs Talking trash in Jakarta https://youtu.be/M5N0NMpKp3A $40 on Great Garuda Sea Wall (Guardian) https://bit.ly/3TgSocj Indonesia's giant capital city is sinking (Nat Geo) https://on.natgeo.com/3pIqF6K Why Indonesia is moving its capital (Real Life Lore) https://youtu.be/t9p1bS1ThwY Nusantara construction begins [video] https://youtu.be/eordUP_VGCo Indonesia passes law to relocate capital to Borneo https://youtu.be/g3SSXBOlDgY Indonesia picks winning design for its new capital https://youtu.be/7-B-jTss5WA Why do countries move their capital cities? https://econ.st/3PP9kns Softbank’s exit from Indonesia’s new capital project https://bit.ly/3wweBcE Jokowi is considering extending his term https://econ.st/3wrQV95 TransJakarta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransJakarta Megacity Episodes: Megacities of the World (Season 2 Complete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb6w1rDa2jc Los Angeles, California's Megacity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QropkR9iasY AFRICA'S MEGACITY: Kinshasa, DRC (CONGO) https://youtu.be/bgljcixHvAU Megacities of the World (Season 1 - Complete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULzxD3w_c8 TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmo PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4 SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0 CAIRO: Middle East https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKphKvodLQ DELHI: India's Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4 SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE MEXICO CITY: Largest MEGACITY in the Americas https://youtu.be/8dEKLuZXrUc Obama Makes Baby Stop Crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44 Trump Destroyed by Comedian Hasan Minhaj at 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLRj1LaPiQ Seth Rogen Testifies Before Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdbHSGWAgs President Obama's Anger Translator: Behind The Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThj8BJIjUg