Sinking Jakarta

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Experts predict that large parts of the Indonesian capital will be submerged by 2050 unless action is urgently taken. As a low-lying coastal city, Jakarta is vulnerable to climate change, but the biggest problem is the massive extraction of groundwater, as Mayuri Mei Lin of BBC Indonesian has been finding out. Image: Residents in Jakarta during floods in February 2018 Credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images