JAKARTA (Jakarta Post) : The City Park Agency is planning to add around five hectares of land for green lanes in efforts to improve air quality in the capital.
Agency head Sarwo Handayani said it proposed around Rp 40 billion (US$4.2 million) in the 2008 city budget to clear lands to be used for open green spaces.
Governor Fauzi Bowo said the city found it difficult to enlarge the city's existing green areas due to the limited land available in the city.
"We can optimize the already existing parks of the subdistricts," he said as quoted by beritajakarta.com on Sunday.
He said the city should devote around 13.9 percent of its land to open green spaces.
"Currently we only have about 9.6 percent," he said, adding that for every one percent of additional green space the administration would have to clear around 650 hectares.
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