Antara News, Monday, December 21, 2009 23:03 WIB
Solo, Central Java (ANTARA News) - The area of green belts in Indonesian cities has decreased by 30 percent during the past 30 years, an environment ministry official said.
Green open public spaces in urban centers could eventually vanish or change in function if the current situation was not handled properly, Bambang Widianto, deputy for urban people`s empowerment to the envionment minister, said here Monday.
Citing examples, he said green belts in two major cities such as Jakarta and Bandung now were only 0.55 square meters and 0.45 square meters wide respectively.
"These numbers are vastly different from the green belts in major European cities which range from 7 to 11,5 square meters," Bambang said at a seminar about the environment at Solo city`s Sebelas Maret University.
Ideally, he said, the width of green belts account for 30 percent of an urban area . However, it was very hard to achieve the ideal green belt width, especially in big cities in Indonesia such as Jakarta.
One of the possible ways to preserve the environment in big cities, he said, was making biopore holes and restore the initial function of public open spaces as green areas.
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