Urban Development In Jakarta

Tugas Essay Penilaian English Debate – theme “Pembangunan Jakarta”

Jakarta Urban Development – Comparisons and Observations

In this essay, I attempt to make summarize and make comparisons of the current state of Jakarta development with other cities in Southeast Asia. The differences between the socio-economic background regarding every countries should be taken into account.

Introduction: Jakarta

Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia and the largest metropolitan area in Southeast Asia with tremendous population growth and a wide range of urban problems. Not only that, Jakarta is a city that is the center of economics, culture, and politics of Indonesia. It has a population of 10,075,310 people as of 2014, and its rapid urban growth of its population

In 2010, wider Jakarta accounted for 11.79 percent of Indonesia’s total population. It has a population of 10,075,310 people as of 2014, which is pressing regarding that the whole population resides in 0.3% of the country’s total

The country’s much-heralded economic growth has been marked by growing concentrations of that wealth in the hands of a few , and a stagnation if not deterioration in the standard of living of a vast majority of Indonesians. According to a 2017 Oxfam report on the widening wealth gap, inequality has been driven by a combination of ‘market fundamentalism’ , high concentrations of land ownership, and the second lowest rate of tax collection in Southeast Asia.

The poor bear the most drastic impacts of economic inequality in Indonesia, although it is felt in vastly different ways in all social and economic lifestyle. For Jakarta’s upper middle classes the desire for security, lifestyle, and convenience — together with the push by developers for profitable all-inclusive developments — has meant increasingly separation from other social and economic groups within gated estates, apartments towers, shopping malls and private vehicles. Once a city of economically mixed neighborhoods, large parts of the city are divided by class and ethnicity. This can be seen in North Jakarta, where remaining kampung sit in uneasy tension alongside luxury apartments and gated