Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from sinking under the sea ...

Jakarta’s vulnerability to flooding and ... said he expects a scaled-back version of the giant sea wall to be built for less than the initial budget. In this scenario, a wall stretching 20km ...

Late last week, president Joko Widodo of Indonesia told the AP that he’s fast-tracking a decade-in-the-making plan for a giant seawall around Jakarta ... to leave if the wall doesn’t work?

Jakarta’s giant sea wall is a last-ditch effort to prevent the city from sinking due to rising sea levels and land subsidence.#Jakarta#ClimateChange#EngineeringSolutions Mississippi governor ...

Indonesia is reviving plans to construct a giant sea wall in the latest of measures to prevent its capital city of Jakarta from sinking at a faster rate. The project will require three phases of ...

Indonesia has grand plans for Jakarta—a new capital on Borneo, a giant bird-shaped sea wall to protect Jakarta itself—but they don’t solve the underlying problem. The skyscrapers of central ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends ... said he expected there would be a lot of demand from local giant sea wall projects to address the land subsidence in many coastal areas in ...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s president said in an interview that he wants to see the speedy construction of a giant sea wall around Jakarta to prevent the low-lying capital from ...