The 2018 Asian Games and Asian Para Games, which Jakarta cohosted with Palembang in South Sumatra, contributed to the decline of the capital city’s financial growth, said Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan, adding that the metropolis had enjoyed a strong economic system throughout arrangements for the video games a yr earlier.
“Preparations for the Asian Games and Asian Para Games in 2017 had a bigger economic impact as compared to [the actual events] in 2018,” Anies stated in the plenary assembly at the City Council on Monday as said by way of kompas.Com.
Still, Anies stated that Jakarta’s 2018 financial boom, which stood at 6.17 percent, became nonetheless above the countrywide common of 5.17 percentage inside the same year.
Jakarta Tax and Levy Agency (BPRD) head Faisal Syafrudin said the city administration managed to reach its goal in 2017 way to the tax amnesty.
“We had a tax amnesty in 2017. It was remarkable, we were given nearly Rp 2 trillion [US$ 141.38 million] from that,” he stated, adding that the truth the amnesty did now not retain in 2018 additionally contributed to lower sales.
The City Council’s Hanura Party faction puzzled the drop, adding that Jakarta’s Rp 61.24 trillion sales in 2018 become ninety-three percentage of the preliminary target of Rp 65.Eighty-one trillion. (ami)
Editor’s note:
We changed the heading from the original model “Jakarta economic system slows down due to 2018 Asian Games, Aries says” to mirror the words introduced by way of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan in his speech as stated via kompas.Com on Monday.
The metropolis’s plan to make synthetic rain to lessen air pollutants in Jakarta misses the factor, consistent with Greenpeace Indonesia.
The plan arose after residents of Greater Jakarta grouped underneath a motion named Tim Advokasi Ibukota (Jakarta Advocacy Team) filed a historical civil lawsuit with the Central Jakarta District Court remaining week to demand the valuable government and regional administrations do something about it.
Jakarta became many of the worst-polluted towns in Southeast Asia according to the World Health Organization’s statistics recorded from 2015 to 2016.
Greenpeace Indonesia climate and energy campaigner Bondan Andriyanu stated that as opposed to taking this sort of vain measure, the town has to awareness on controlling the resources of pollutants.
Cleaning up the air with synthetic rain is a brief solution, due to the fact the resources of pollution are nonetheless round.
“We can not make the rain last all day,” Bondan stated on Monday as quoted via pace.Co.
“Say the rain best lasts for three hours. After that, would the sources of pollution forestall? Of course, now not, they keep producing [new pollutants],” he delivered.
He gave the example of hearth being extinguished using synthetic rain.
Bondan said that, so that it will absolutely be placed out the hearth, we want to understand exactly where the supply is to save you it from spreading to different areas.
“In this situation, if we aren’t even certain approximately the sources of pollutants and then we just all at once throw water [all over the city], how could we recognize which pollutants have long gone and that have no longer? Which pollution could seem once more?” he defined.
The Assessment and Application of Technology Agency (BPPT ) formerly said it may adjust the weather to assist the town remedy the air pollution hassle.
BPPT chairman Hammam Riza claimed that the plan has been accepted by way of Jakarta Governor Anies Baswedan and that it’d be carried out this month.
“The governor has given us the ‘green mild and asked the Weather Modification Technology (TMC) Agency to do it on July 10 on the soonest or before the educational 12 months starts offevolved,” Hammam stated.
However, Anies said the plan changed into still within the preliminary evaluation phase and they needed time to discuss it similarly.
TMC Agency chairman Tri Handoko Seto said the prices would be borne with the aid of the town.
“It has been discussed within the assembly, how a lot the fee would be,” he stated. (via)
