Asian capital city named world's most polluted

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The Indonesian capital of Jakarta was ranked the most polluted city in the world on Wednesday.

Swiss air quality technology company IQAir has consistently ranked it among the top 10 polluted cities around the globe since May.

Jakarta registers unhealthy air pollution levels nearly every day, it said.

Jakarta has a population of more than 10 million people.

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A view of traffic amid air pollution in Jakarta, Indonesia, June 27, 2023. In recent weeks, Jakarta has crept into the top of a list of cities with the worst air quality. According to metrics gauged by Swiss climate technology company IQAir, Jakarta recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) score of 157, placing it squarely in the ”unhealthy” category. Earlier this month, Jakarta’s air was reported to consist of 67 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3) of PM 2.5 pollutants: a class of fine breathable matter that is often made out to be the cause of various respiratory diseases, which was 13.4 times higher than the level the World Health Organization (WHO) considers safe. The report ranked Jakarta among the top three of 61 cities observed worldwide for premature deaths related to such pollution, with more than 1,500 deaths blamed on coal power in 2019. (Garry Lotulung/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

President Joko Widodo told reporters last week that the solution to the issue would be to relocate the country’s capital city to Nusantara.

“One solution is to reduce the burden on Jakarta so that some of it will later be moved to Nusantara. And the mass transportation is a must,” he said.