REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- Green City Partnership in collaboration with a number of communities and the city government initiated #AyoKeTaman (let's got to the park) movement, Sunday (4/10). The movement was expected to open public awareness of parks in Jakarta, so that it could be used by public to conduct useful activities.

"People prefer to go to the mall, consequently, the parks are dying," said City Planning Observer from Trisakti University, Nirwono Joga, Sunday (4/10).

From 1,173 parks, he said, 50 percent of them were dead or poorly maintained. The condition was triggered by the low cost of maintenance, plus people who did not care about the existence of the parks.

As a result, several parks in Jakarta were often misused to become a criminal, nasty, and dirty places. In the end, the parks were strategically becoming easy targets of investors to land conversion, for example, into apartments or shopping center.

In 1985, Jakarta has 25.85 percent of green open space (RTH). In 2000, that number shrank to 9 percent. Whereas, according to Law 26 of 2007, a city should ideally have 30 percent of green space.

"Now it increased to 10 percent," he added.

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