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The 1.1-hectare
Pesakih Reservoir
is one of the raw
water resources
for SPAM
Mookervart.

Credit:
Safran H.

locations. “This is a formal policy to resolve land administrative areas under Jakarta province,
disputes, and this is a huge breakthrough,” he said. geographically, this district is located in the middle
of the Java Sea and includes a group of islands, of
However, to develop equal distribution of drinking which 11 islands are residential areas as well as the
water services in the capital city, the government economic centres of residents.
doesn’t only have to solve the problem of disputed
lands but also the limited resources, which is related The problem in Thousand Islands is not merely about
to the raw water resources as well as clean water its limited access, but also the affordability of clean
piping networks that do not cover all areas of Jakarta. water which is relatively more expensive compared to
mainland Jakarta. They have to pay high price since
From the data of PAM Jaya, until 2020, the coverage of the clean water is being processed from sea water,
Jakarta’s clean water piping system has only reached the only source of raw water for them, using high
64%. Meanwhile, regarding raw water sources, of the technology namely the Sea Water Reverse Osmosis
13 rivers that pass-through Jakarta, only water from (SWRO).
Krukut and Pesanggrahan rivers can be converted
into clean water. Besides the high price of the machine, SWRO
maintenance is also relatively expensive, resulting
Besides in mainland Jakarta, the problem to meet in higher price of the fresh water produced. Jakarta
clean water need is getting more complicated Gubernatorial Regulation No.34/2018 stipulated the
in the Thousand Islands Regency. As one of the price of clean water for the Thousand Island areas

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