The 2020 edition of Demographia World Urban Areas reports that Jakarta has reached a population of 34.5 million, behind Tokyo-Yokohama’s 38.0 million (Figure 1). The report can be downloaded here (Note 1). Yet Tokyo’s growth has slowed, a reflection of Japan’s overall demographic implosion, although it is still adding people while the
The growth of Jakarta has generated suburbanization in Jakarta’s peripheral areas. Not only is Jakarta the capital of Indonesia, it is the economic, commercial and transportation hub of the nation. The Indonesia’s economy has been growing at a robust pace of 6 percent a year and Jakarta has been Indonesia’s primary growth machine.
What has happened is that, as Jakarta’s election approaches, race and religious identity are dominating public debates, rather than issues related to social justice and good governance.” China
In other words, urban and socio-political processes observed in Jakarta receive national attention and are closely scrutinised. In this sense, the types of problems observed in Jakarta are perceived as imminent challenges that formal institutions must tackle. This signifies an important shift in the political decision-making of Indonesian voters.
Jakarta is the largest metropolitan in Southeast Asia with tremendous rate of population growth and wide range of urban problems. The overall population of Jakarta increased 100 times in the 20th century, from about 100,000 in 1900 to more than 9 million in 1995.
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