Indonesia, and especially its capital Jakarta, is just subjected to Air Pollution just like any other countries in Asia.

Indonesia ranks 112^nd (out of 178 countries) at the Environmental Performance Index for Air Quality (2014 score).

There are many press articles about the Air Pollution problems, especially in Jakarta, like for instance the Jakarta Globe article about "Jakarta’s Air Quality Takes a Toxic Turn for The Worse" and the Jakarta Post article about "Air pollution in city reaches alarming level" as well as this open from the JP reader forum). Some more clues can be found from this very interesting publication from Mosaic about "Where there’s smoke".

(image attribution: wikipedia)

So, like most of the countries in Asia, there is no reason why there should not be real-time Air Quality monitoring in Indonesia, at least for the capital Jakarta.

But, unfortunately, there is not much information about real-time Air Quality data from the Ministry of Environment. Their website, menlh.go.id, is even displaying an "Error establishing a database connection" today. The Jakarta Environmental Board (Badan Pengelola Lingkungan Hidup Daerah Propinsi DKI Jakarta) is not providing much more information either. The Jakarta Smartcity is probably the place where one would expect the find the information, but that's not the case either. And last, there does not seems to be much activity from NGOs or Health funds about it (cf CAI Indonesia)

Najbolje rješenje za pružanje informacija o kvaliteti zraka u stvarnom vremenu u Indoneziji i Jarkarti bilo bi da Ministarstvo okoliša počne pružati službena očitanja. Ali budući da to ponekad može potrajati, tim aqicn.org sada pokreće "indonezijski projekt praćenja kvalitete zraka".

Visible Air Pollution on Jakarta Skyline (attribution).
(Check this article for an explanation about visual air quality)

Tim za istraživanje i razvoj aqicn.org sada razvija novu pristupačnu vanjsku stanicu za praćenje kvalitete zraka za čestice (PM _2,5 ) i želimo instalirati nekoliko njih u Phnom Penhu (za početak). Stanica je jednostavna za korištenje i ne zahtijeva gotovo nikakvo održavanje. Za rad je potrebna samo WIFI veza (napajanje je osigurano baterijom i solarnim panelom).

Dakle, ako živite u Jakarti i želite nam pomoći, mi tražimo ljude koji nam mogu pomoći da ugostimo postaje. Ako ste to vi, ispunite donji obrazac svojim kontakt podacima. Alternativno, ako ste samo zainteresirani za dobivanje podataka u stvarnom vremenu, ili želite dobiti više informacija o projektu, također se možete pretplatiti na našu listu za primanje ažuriranja o projektu, koristeći isti obrazac u nastavku.