Jakarta's Subsidence Monitoring & Groundwater-Free Zones
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The ground was already sinking more slowly before the pumping ban took effect in 2023, so the rule inherits a trend it cannot claim. Of 496 audited buildings, 70 still drew on wells as well as pipes.
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Geodesists at Bandung Institute of Technology have tracked Jakarta sinking since the 1970s using levelling, GPS and InSAR, measuring typical rates of 3-10 cm a year between 1974 and 2010 and, by the city's count, up to 20-28 cm a year at certain locations, driven largely by groundwater pumping alongside construction loads and natural compaction. Governor Regulation 93/2021, in force since 1 August 2023, bars buildings of 5,000 m2 or eight floors and above inside nine designated areas and twelve road segments from pumping, and requires calibrated meters reporting into the water agency's system. By February 2024 the agency counted 396 of 496 qualifying buildings on piped water; 70 still used both. In April 2025 it began consulting on extending the zones to three more areas in North Jakarta.
📊 Impact
Of 496 qualifying buildings audited by February 2024, 396 had switched to piped water, 70 still used both sources and 5 remained on groundwater alone; the rest, per the agency, relied on tanker deliveries or had not reported their supply. PAM Jaya piped coverage reached 80.24% of Jakarta at the end of 2025.
🎓 Lesson
Jakarta's subsidence had already slowed before the ban commenced — peer-reviewed InSAR puts the 2015-2020 rate near 3 cm a year — so the rule inherits a trend it cannot claim to have caused. A pumping ban is only as strong as the pipe next to it: buildings still fall back on wells when supply falters.
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📅 How old is the evidence?
Two clocks, kept apart: when this entry’s sources were published, and what has happened to its record in the atlas. Documented span: since 2021. 9 of 9 sources carry a publication date, from 12 November 2015 to 13 May 2026.
When the sources were published
- Copernicus Publications · researchAbidin, Andreas, Gumilar and Brinkman — risk and impacts of land subsidence in Jakarta (Proc. IAHS 372, 2015)
- Pemerintah Provinsi DKI Jakarta · city governmentJDIH DKI Jakarta — Governor Regulation 93/2021 on groundwater-free zones
- American Geophysical Union (Wiley) · researchWu, Wei and D'Hondt — subsidence in coastal cities observed by InSAR (Geophysical Research Letters 49, 2022)
- Phys.org · pressPhys.org — Asia's coastal cities sinking faster than sea-level rise
- detikcom · pressdetikNews — high-rises still found using groundwater (27 Feb 2024)
- Pemprov DKI Jakarta · city governmentPemprov DKI Jakarta — efficient water use
- Dinas Sumber Daya Air DKI Jakarta — consultation on extending the groundwater-free zone to three North Jakarta areas (25 Apr 2025)
- detikcom · pressdetikNews — piped water coverage reaches 80.24% in 2025 (26 Jan 2026)
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- Jakarta Globe · pressJakarta Globe — Constitutional Court confirms Jakarta is still the capital
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Evidence file · public beta 13 addressable claims, 9 source dossiers, one permanent baseline. The file is unreviewed — an AI-assisted structural migration, not a human or expert endorsement. Every revision keeps a permanent copy under revision history.
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Geodesists at Bandung Institute of Technology have tracked Jakarta sinking since the 1970s using levelling, GPS and InSAR, measuring typical rates of 3-10 cm a year between 1974 and 2010
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by the city's count, up to 20-28 cm a year at certain locations
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driven largely by groundwater pumping alongside construction loads and natural compaction
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Governor Regulation 93/2021, in force since 1 August 2023
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bars buildings of 5,000 m2 or eight floors and above inside nine designated areas and twelve road segments from pumping
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requires calibrated meters reporting into the water agency's system
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By February 2024 the agency counted 396 of 496 qualifying buildings on piped water; 70 still used both
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In April 2025 it began consulting on extending the zones to three more areas in North Jakarta.
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Of 496 qualifying buildings audited by February 2024, 396 had switched to piped water, 70 still used both sources and 5 remained on groundwater alone
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the rest, per the agency, relied on tanker deliveries or had not reported their supply
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PAM Jaya piped coverage reached 80.24% of Jakarta at the end of 2025
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Jakarta's subsidence had already slowed before the ban commenced — peer-reviewed InSAR puts the 2015-2020 rate near 3 cm a year
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buildings still fall back on wells when supply falters
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Governance facts carried by the record
- Operator
- Dinas Sumber Daya Air, Provinsi DKI Jakarta (with PAM Jaya as piped-water supplier)
- Actor types
- city-government, utility
- Funding model
- public
- Funding description
- Not recorded
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9 source dossiers
JDIH DKI Jakarta — Governor Regulation 93/2021 on groundwater-free zones
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- Name not classified · jdih.jakarta.go.id
- Type / language
- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2021-10-26
- Updated
- Not recorded
- Source last checked
- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-05
- Dossier created
- 2026-10-05
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Primary text. Enacted 22 October 2021, promulgated 26 October 2021, in force 1 August 2023. Sets the building criteria (5,000 m2 floor area and/or 8 floors), the obligation to install calibrated automatic water-recording devices on inlet lines integrated with the Water Resources Agency's automatic abstraction information system, water-balance reporting, and the sanctions ladder from written warning to licence revocation.
Pemprov DKI Jakarta — efficient water use
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src-d801c15531746ac0- Publisher
- Name not classified · jakarta.go.id
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2024-07-01
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-05
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- 2026-10-05
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Official city page confirming the ban took effect 1 August 2023 under Governor Regulation 93/2021, that it covers nine areas and twelve road segments rather than the whole city, and giving the city's own subsidence figures: 1-15 cm/year in some areas, 20-28 cm/year at certain locations.
Abidin, Andreas, Gumilar and Brinkman — risk and impacts of land subsidence in Jakarta (Proc. IAHS 372, 2015)
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- Name not classified · piahs.copernicus.org
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2015-11-12
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-05
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- 2026-10-05
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Peer-reviewed, open access. Source for the measured rates with their period: typical 3-10 cm/year across 1974-2010, spatially and temporally variable, measured by levelling, GPS and InSAR; identifies excessive groundwater extraction, construction loading and natural consolidation as the causative factors.
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Wu, Wei and D'Hondt — subsidence in coastal cities observed by InSAR (Geophysical Research Letters 49, 2022)
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src-8cd90cf8713a43ef- Publisher
- Name not classified · agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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- web-page · language not classified
- Published
- 2022-03-30
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- Not recorded
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- No source-level check date
- Record last verified
- 2026-10-05
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- 2026-10-05
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Peer-reviewed InSAR study of 99 coastal cities over 2015-2020. Supports the counterweight in the lesson: Jakarta's rate fell to roughly 3 cm/year in that window, before the 2023 commencement date. Publisher blocks automated fetching; content verified via search and the report below.
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Phys.org — Asia's coastal cities sinking faster than sea-level rise
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- Name not classified · phys.org
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2022-04-26
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- 2026-10-05
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- 2026-10-05
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Fetchable report on the Wu et al. paper, carrying the authors' direct statement that subsidence rates in Jakarta and Shanghai have slowed significantly, likely due to reduced groundwater extraction implemented as government regulations, and giving Jakarta's 2015-2020 rate as about 3 cm/year.
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detikNews — high-rises still found using groundwater (27 Feb 2024)
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- Name not classified · news.detik.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2024-02-27
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- 2026-10-05
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- 2026-10-05
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Source for the compliance figures, attributed to the Jakarta Water Resources Agency: 496 qualifying buildings evaluated, 396 on piped water, 5 still on groundwater alone, 70 using both, and buildings still falling back on wells during supply interruptions.
detikNews — piped water coverage reaches 80.24% in 2025 (26 Jan 2026)
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- Name not classified · news.detik.com
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-01-26
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- 2026-10-05
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Dated utility figure for piped-water coverage: 80.24 percent at end-2025 across 1,178,022 connections, a rise of 12.59 percentage points since 2023 against 10.77 points over the whole 1998-2023 period.
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Jakarta Globe — Constitutional Court confirms Jakarta is still the capital
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- Name not classified · jakartaglobe.id
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2026-05-13
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- 2026-10-05
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Supports the Nusantara clause in the lesson: as of the May 2026 ruling Jakarta remained the legal capital, with transfer to Nusantara pending a presidential decree.
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Dinas Sumber Daya Air DKI Jakarta — consultation on extending the groundwater-free zone to three North Jakarta areas (25 Apr 2025)
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- Name not classified · dsda.jakarta.go.id
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- web-page · language not classified
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- 2025-04-25
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- 2026-10-05
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The water agency's notice of a consultation on extending the groundwater-free zone (ZOBAT) to Jl. Letjen Suprapto, Jl. Perintis Kemerdekaan and the Kelapa Gading area, presented as a step to move users from groundwater to PAM Jaya's piped network.
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- Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
- A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
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1001 Smart Cities (2026). “Jakarta's Subsidence Monitoring & Groundwater-Free Zones” — Jakarta, Indonesia. The Smart City Atlas. https://1001smartcities.org/projects/jakarta-subsidence-groundwater/ (last verified 2026-10-05). Data: CC BY 4.0.
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