Jakarta is sinking! - Equator from the Air - BBC 

And still Indonesia's media too focus on politics and entertainment, thank you bbc to worried us on our problem

It is actually very eye opening for me as I live in Jakarta and this place might only be as far as 5 to 6 miles from my neighborhood, the more horrifying is the fact that not many of us are aggressively informed about the problem. We know Jakarta is sitting below the sea level and that it is sinking a few centimetre every year, but nobody really brings the awareness and proofs that not only it's already happening, it happens fast. Our media is obsessed with politics, religions and how to combine them, when there's a literal place not far from our houses where a man can fish on the street. #smh

And 500 years later BBC will proudly presents Jakarta the Ancient City Has Been Found In The Middle of Indian Ocean.

Its always the outsider Media who are more focused on the actual issues of a certain country than the media in that country

"Rapid urbanization gone horribly, horribly wrong" New citizens of Jakarta : yamaap

you know you are in trouble when a man is fishing on the streets.

People in 8019: Evidence that the lost city of jakarta existed

Trash everywhere* People : nah its fine Flood coming* People : wtf this government!

Indonesian media should show content like this ... not only about politics and news about the sensation of junk artists.

Jakarta now: Sinking Jakarta in the future: ATLANTIS FOUND IN SOUTH EAST ASIA?!

Jakarta: sinks The Netherlands: *laughs in below sea level*

*Imagine if Jakarta was located in the Philippines , Typhoons everymonth would probably sink that City in no time*

Indonesia is a great country, but.. they are also great at ignoring their own problems...

Don't worry Jakarta, our Bangkok will sink with you. Edit: Welcome to the sinking cities club, Manilla and Ho Chi Minh. Let us sink together. 2eme edit: Please also welcome Venice, Italy and Miami, USA as our non-ASEAN associate members. Do tell your relatives and friends to start saving for higher lands.

Atlantis : *Im the Best Mythical city in the Sea* Jakarta : hold my polluted drink

The problem isn't that it's sinking, the problem is that it's sinking with pollution

The most disturbing thing about this video is the amount of garbage in the water!

2 possibilities 1. Jakarta becomes Atlantis. 2. Jakarta becomes Venice. Forget number 2, Jakarta will definitely be like Atlantis

2019: Jakarta 2050: Aquarta

6:14 the woman is hugging the wooden post like saying “I don’t wanna leave this place”.

Atlantis: "Yo dude, join in?" Jakarta: "Cool, coming in 2050" Edit: Holy shit, these guys has no chill, man.😂

Im so sad. Im Indonesian and don't even know this is happening at our Capital City. The local television unfrequent to expose such an eye opening report like this. But Thank Godness i am living in a rural peacefull village in Sumatra, yet feel so sorry about Jakarta.

Why live poorly in jakarta if you can live peaceful in a village

Indonesian media just care a politician figure, artis and advertising etc. Most people like watching stupid sinetron.

Jakarta isn't sinking.. The government are actively planning to be the first underwater capital city in the world.

Jakarta: Sinking Private companies : Build up heaviest and tallest buildings Jakarta's continent: am i joke to you? Edited: Jakarta's Island Too many genius people around here I'm out

When people realize that Jakarta is sinking New comers: *this is totally fine* People who throws trash at the streets: its the government's fault and we don't care Government: *Ah shit, here we go again*

They built these huge walls to protect themselves and take refuge Sorry wrong Anime 😅

Don't worry people of jakarta...soon ya'll become atlantian...

Don’t make fun of this in a comment section . This is a serious problem to our fellow country. Everything doesn't need to be a joke on the internet . Philippines 🇵🇭 will pray for your country.

This is why the BBC is such an important broadcaster- bringing awareness to issues like this

Pray for your City (Jakarta) not to sinking love from your brother, Philippines 🇵🇭 🇮🇩

*jakarta sinking* me living in jakarta : i see im going to become a legend like my brothers and sisters in atlantis many years ago.

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"I just can't imagine that this place... has a future" :(

I don't feel safe even though I'm from another country.. because wherever you go.. we're still on Earth..

great, i learn my own country from outside media local media doesn't quite often talk about this issue this thorough

The biggest problem is that Indonesian put importance on land ownership. They didn't want to own a room, they want to own lands, which contribute to rapid wide expansion of urban core

Atlantis: Man I'm so lonely Jakarta: Don't worry mate I'll be your friend

where are the forests, the trees that protects your country from sinking indonesia. wake up starts planting trees now

When you spill the bucket of water in Minecraft and the whole city floods.

"Jakarta is sinking." Government: I'm watching RU-vid right now, I didn't hear anything.

Jakarta : *Exist People lives outside of jakarta : it's free real estate Jakarta : *Start sinking People lives outside of jakarta : *It's STILL free real estate*

Hope that the Indonesian government could put some efforts in those areas. I have lots of Indonesian classmates and most of them are really nice to us Filipinos, compared to other South East Asian brothers. Keep safe and Godbless Indonesia! -🇵🇭

Years ago BBC was known for documenting good things of this planet and now the ending of the good things, now it's time to retrieve, save this beautiful planet 🌍

Wth.. I'm indonesian and i've never seen this issue mentioned ONCE in the TV News I dont live at Java Island but this is just unbelievable

"It looked apocalyptic." LMAO Couldn't describe it more accurately

Jakarta: I'm sinking Indonesian government: waT ar u sinking about?

That's literally 'tanah air', or water land... Actually tanah air means homeland.

Once again.. the youtube algoritm brought us here

2019: HBO presents *Chernobyl* 2100: HBO presents The lost city of Jakarta! remind my account when its happen.

Insane? It's disgusting that people are forced to live like that. Their year round awful weather doesn't help much either.

I'm malaysia and this broke my heart. This is so sad. Jakarta is a beautiful and modern city. I really hope their government do something abt this and not just left this city hanging.

Thanks for sharing my city. It was terrible problem. I hope the goverment see this video

Polluted, corrupted, mismanaged. Jakarta is moving toward a fail city. Even more with this current local government.

The governor, the ministers and the president have tried hard enough to deal with this problem. but some people who live in the suburbs of Jakarta refuse to be moved and prefer to defend their place for various reasons. one of them is because they has lived there since he was a child and is a house inherited from his parents. However, when it rains heavily, especially during the rainy season and early in the year, they blame the government for not being able to handle the floods that hit Jakarta. There was once a Jakarta governor who was good at dealing with flood problems and for several years during his tenure, Jakarta was not flooded. but the problem of misunderstanding made Jakarta choose the wrong leader. He had talked to the media if it was raining, let the water enter the ground, not be processed into the sea. I'm talking like this because I live in Indonesia and grew up in Jakarta. and so everyone knows how bad the city is right now

1000 years from now History: Could their be an ancient civilisation

Jakarta? Somebody say to me Aquakarta🤕😢

only this time I didn't see anyone commenting "hi im from indonesia" 🤨

The government and mayor of Jakarta should get scientist and engineers on board and try to find a good solution

Hundred years from now, it's going to be called "The lost city of Jakarta"

Jakarta : *is sinking* governement : *is thinking bout politics and religion controversy*

I lived in Jakarta for 26 years and only found out this. because there is no media that preaches the sinking of Jakarta. Very incredible news

"I sink Zakarta iz sinking." - Jose Mourinho

If Jakarta really sinks, my city (Bogor) will have a beach and sea LOL

I still remember back then it was around 2005, i read a newspaper and they have mentioned about the possibility of Jakarta sinking in 2050 and its been 14 years now and i haven't seen any efforts to prevent or slow down the process. Once the former governor had plan to build a giant sea wall to minimize the effect of Rob flood that happens every goddamn year and see what happened to the plan? Some people ruined it. There won't be any change soon if the people are still get carried away by hoaxes and get irritated easily without obvious reasons.

BBC : So how will you solve Jakarta’s sinking problem? Government : Yes.

so sad so many countries have converted this planet into a wasteland. We forgot that trees own this planet before humans arrived.

Media Jakarta emang sengaja gak ngeliput yang beginian karena TAKUT : 1. Investor2 pada kabur 2. Harga jual tanah Jakarta juga bakal nge drop !

What so sad about this, most people in Jakarta doesn't know their city is sinking.

Western media: the jakarta is sinking. Indonesian media : Luna maya "jangan mencinta terlalu dalam".

Manila is not sinking, government doing urban planning, development and also in sewerage. Philippines transfered all mega cities outside metro manila like Clark City. There's a new airport, subway train, terminal buses, housing projects, business hub and a new business district uprising. 🇵🇭

The actual question is, do we actually care enough to act? if yes, then ladies and gentleman, mother earth needs you for your own safety.

I like how casual the conversation was, just like they're talking in the same language

Here is Indonesia comment: "Belom nyampe rumah gue,jadi tenang aja..." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I will glad i don't have sea in Kuala Lumpur. May god blessing Jakarta INDONESIA . 🤲🏻

The people commenting jokes about this feel so disconnected.. it's like we're not living on the same earth..

From the creator of "Chernobyl" "A thrilling masterpiece!" - IMDB "Hauntingly beautiful!" - Rotten Tomatoes "Scary and Epic!" - Netflix JAKARTA coming 2020.

Great journalism by the BBC. 👍👍🌏🌏 Keep making more reporting that focuses on issues like this.

The only solution there is to relocate the inhabitants and dismantle all those abandoned buildings and shanties, clean the area and plant millions of trees.

"Jakarta is sinking" Government : we inventing the first water city in the world

BBC : Jakarta is sinking Jakartan : Lets pray to god to save us (and doing nothing to prevent it). Yeah, it is just like your house is on fire but you don't call firefighters or do anything to stop it. Just pray that god will do action to help you. Typical

People of Atlantis : we are an advanced ancient-civilization under the sea!! People of Jakarta : Hold my Aqua-refill..

Let's say, Jokowi already took the best part contribute to overcome this issue by removing the capital to Borneo, yet many Indonesian people still strugling with unrelated reasons for retaining this incredible idea

After 4050: Aliens:"there is a proof of civilization of humans by the sinked cities"

Jakartans don't need city planning, they just need tickets to heaven. 58% of them to be exact.

Nobody : Minecraft : put a dry sponge block

3:10 This looks like a scene from an apocalypic movie, with the music and the camera angle, hopefully jakarta doesn't go that way.

They should grow mangroves. It wouldn't fix their situation, but it'd dampen it's effects

I haven’t watched ever this shown in our media, they just focus on the politic

Thankyou BBC to show the reality abaout Jakarta, hope many people understanding this problem

Netherland: aight, we conquered water Indonesia: * sees netherland * Indonesia: lets copy them * Indonesia proceed to copy * Indonesia: Sh** we failed, *RUN*

You know what's funny? Videonya di garap sama media luar negri yang majority audience nya untuk mereka yang tinggal di luar Indonesia. Padahal yang sebenernya butuh disadarin adalah orang orang di Indo. Rarely Indonesian media take environment issues seriously. For example this one.

3:11 holy moly, this looks like from a movie but instead of CGI, it's 100% real world scenery

Can you swim? I can't swim...neither can I. I think you should take lessons. He is indirectly warning those ladies here. 😯

The best quote , The speaker : I am looking a green space which bigger than football field! , and The people's : The flooding never stopping since two years ago.

'there's even a man fishing in the street' lol Edit : thx for the like guys, I never got this much 👍

Jakarta : Rapid Urbanisation New Delhi : Hold my beer....

Jadi inget sekitar 6 atau 7 tahun lalu pernah ke Jakarta . Bukannya takjub dengan ibu kota, tapi maaf , lebih ke jijik aku sebagai orang luar yang cuma mampir sebentar di Jakarta . Gimana ya, bau ga sedap sering aku temuin, ga hujan padahal saat aku ke sana, tapi jalanan basah, air meluap, bener bener ga berkesan saat itu ke Jakarta, pingin cepet cepet balik dari Jakarta saat itu . "Pemerintah dan masyarakat" di Jakarta harus bisa kerjasama, peduli dengan lingkungan, itu kalian lo yang "tinggal" di sana . Kalau bukan kalian yang jaga tempat tinggal kalian, siapa lagi? Jangan pada menyalahkan orang lain, ayuk mulai dari diri sendiri dulu . Aku yang orang luar aja ga betah beberapa hari di sana, heran hebat banget warga Jakarta bisa betah .

By 2050 every home will be having a boat for transportation rather than a car.