When Faradilla Fajrin Al-Fath left Jakarta<\/strong> to attend Arizona State University in 2018, she thought she could leave her hometown floods behind. But she was wrong. Being in America revealed to her how serious an issue the floods actually are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u201cWe used to have a five-year flood,\u201d says Al-Fath, a second-year public administration student. \u201cBut not anymore. The floods are much more unpredictable. I grew up in metro Jakarta, and I\u2019d like to say that my people are resilient, but the truth is, many are hopeless. They just carry on in the face of the recurring floods. The latest one surrounded my parents\u2019 house with muddy and trashy waters. They and my sister couldn\u2019t leave the house for few days.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The yearly floods are a norm in metro Jakarta and date back to colonial times, over a hundred years ago. The Jakarta metropolitan area, which today is one of Asia\u2019s largest urban districts with an estimated 30 million inhabitants, has also started to subside. Forty percent of its land mass is below sea level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Al-Fath was a child, she and her family lived in unsustainable housing on illegally occupied government land along the Sabi River. It connects to the Cisadane River, which runs through metropolitan Jakarta. The area in the eastern part of Jakarta has closed to half a million residents and is most prone to damage from the floods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think the concept of privilege really matters in the face of natural disaster,\u201d Al-Fath says. \u201cMy family was renting a place there until I was 5 years old. Once we could afford a mortgage, we moved to my parents\u2019 suburban house in Kota Tangerang. It is safeguarded against floods. I still have childhood friends who live in illegal areas and have been there three or four generations down. Their houses are poorly built, and they have no insurance. Homes get flooded and are full of mud. They live in the areas that people shouldn\u2019t be living. But it is very hard to get them to move away because of the legal and ethical issues. They\u2019ve lived there for a very long time. It\u2019s their home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After graduating from college in Jakarta, Al-Fath used to work for the government\u2019s housing and water services. There, she experienced the issues firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFirst, there are so many extremely vulnerable areas in my city,\u201d she says. \u201cI am convinced we cannot afford to not do anything about the issue. Take water, for example. We must provide the people the water services because water is a human right. Secondly, new, very nice houses \u2014with safe playgrounds for kids and everything you need for good living \u2014 were built and offered to evicted people to live in. But within a month, they moved back because the new area didn\u2019t offer livelihood. They had small business, like making food or baking and they just couldn\u2019t find customers in these new areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For her own future, Al-Fath doesn\u2019t see herself moving back to Jakarta to start a family there. She praises her country for taking big economic steps forward \u2014 thanks to advancements in the technology sector\u2014 but the environmental issues have been neglected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI\u2019d feel hypocritical to say I\u2019d like to be part of the change because the truth is, living in Jakarta wouldn\u2019t be good for my mental and physical wellbeing,\u201d she says. \u201cMy country has recognized the problem with trash and that we have to go green \u2014 whatever it means. I am also concerned about our indigenous people and the wildlife on the Borneo and the Sumatra islands. Our government pays attention when there is smoke after the forest burning, but when the smoke is gone and it rains, they forget what just happened and nothing is done.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, Al-Fath doesn\u2019t want to age or get sick prematurely in the polluted and stressful city life that Jakarta offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201dJakarta\u2019s traffic is so horrible,\u201d she says. \u201cWhen I worked downtown, I spent three to four hours in the traffic congestion every day. The pollution is very bad. My 55-year-old father, who used to commute for work for years, looks so lethargic and old. I hope he lives up to 75, but I\u2019m not sure he\u2019ll make it. No, I cannot go back because the problems are so complex in Jakarta and in my country and I don\u2019t know how and when they can be solved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Kirsi-M. Hayrinen-Beschloss <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voices from the Future | Faradilla Fajrin Al-Fath The Jakarta Floods The Event: On December 31, 2019, torrential rains pounded a swath of Jakarta. 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