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Land subsidence of Jakarta (Indonesia) and its relation with urban development

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Jakarta is the capital city of Indonesia with a population of about 9.6 million people, inhabiting an area of about 660 square-km. In the last three decades, urban development of Jakarta has grown very rapidly in the sectors of industry, trade, transportation, real estate, and many others. This exponentially increased urban development introduces several environmental problems. Land subsidence is one of them. The resulted land subsidence will also then affect the urban development plan and process. It has been reported for many years that several places in Jakarta are subsiding at different rates. The leveling surveys, GPS survey methods, and InSAR measurements have been used to study land subsidence in Jakarta, over the period of 1982–2010. In general, it was found that the land subsidence exhibits spatial and temporal variations, with the rates of about 1–15 cm/year. A few locations can have the subsidence rates up to about 20–28 cm/year. There are four different types of land subsidence that can be expected to occur in the Jakarta basin, namely: subsidence due to groundwater extraction, subsidence induced by the load of constructions (i.e., settlement of high compressibility soil), subsidence caused by natural consolidation of alluvial soil, and tectonic subsidence. It was found that the spatial and temporal variations of land subsidence depend on the corresponding variations of groundwater extraction, coupled with the characteristics of sedimentary layers and building loads above it. In general, there is strong relation between land subsidence and urban development activities in Jakarta.

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  1. Geodesy Research Division, Institute of Technology Bandung, Jl. Ganesha 10, Bandung, Indonesia

    Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Heri Andreas & Irwan Gumilar

  2. Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Yoichi Fukuda

  3. Jakarta Provincial Agency of Industry and Mining, Jl. MT Haryono, Jakarta, 52–53, Indonesia

    Yusuf E. Pohan

  4. School of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    T. Deguchi

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Abidin, H.Z., Andreas, H., Gumilar, I. et al. Land subsidence of Jakarta (Indonesia) and its relation with urban development. Nat Hazards 59, 1753–1771 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-011-9866-9

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