Can Indonesia go underwater?

North Jakarta is expected to submerge underwater up to 95\% by the end of 2050. North Jakarta has already sunk 2.5 metres in recent 10 years and would continue to sink by almost 25 centimetres every year in various parts.

Is Australia going to sink?

Recent measurements using the Global Positioning System (GPS) suggest that the Australian continent is sinking, but current understanding of geophysical processes suggests that the expected vertical motion of the plate should be close to zero or uplifting.

Why is Indonesia’s Jakarta sinking?

Jakarta is a victim of climate change, the fault of humans the world over (though mostly the fault of corporations ), but it’s also a victim of its own policies. The city is sinking—a process known as land subsidence—because residents and industries have been draining aquifers, often illegally, to the point that the land is now collapsing.

Will Jakarta be underwater by 2050?

Part of the problem is extreme congestion, but today the city of more than 10 million is facing nothing short of obliteration by rising seas and sinking land, two opposing yet complementary forces of doom. Models predict that by 2050, 95 percent of North Jakarta could be submerged.

Is North Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok neighbourhood sinking?

“Year after year, the ground has just kept sinking,” he said, just one of many inhabitants of this quarter alarmed at what is happening to the neighbourhood. North Jakarta has historically been a port city and even today it houses one of Indonesia’s busiest sea ports, Tanjung Priok.

What is the biggest threat to Jakarta’s survival?

Countless human-made troubles in the Indonesian capital pose an imminent threat to the city’s survival. And it has to deal with mounting threats from climate change. A flooded mosque in North Jakarta, Indonesia. Josh Haner/The New York Times A tsunami of human-made troubles in the Indonesian capital poses an imminent threat to the city’s survival.