Air quality monitoring of fine particle matter (PM 2.5) by the US embassy in Jakarta in 2019 showed there were 172 unhealthy days, more than 50% of the year. - AFP
JAKARTA (Reuters): Born and raised in the bustling megacity of Jakarta, Indonesia's densely populated, traffic-choked capital, environmentalist Khalisah Khalid has long anguished over the city’s toxic air.
Her young daughter has been plagued by ill health from birth, issues she believes are exacerbated by the city’s worsening air pollution.
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