The document discusses reasons for improving Jakarta, Indonesia into an eco-living city. It states that as a large metropolitan city, Jakarta faces environmental problems that need addressing. Becoming an eco-living city could stimulate economic growth by attracting more tourists and investors. It could also improve residents' health by reducing pollution through the use of green spaces, renewable energy, and public transportation. The document concludes by expressing hope that Jakarta can implement sustainable development practices to become an eco-living city and provide a better quality of life for residents.

1. Muhamad Dzaki Albiruni | XII MIA 4 SMAN 68 Jakarta
Muhamad Dzaki Albiruni
XII – MIA 4 (23)
Ujian Praktik Bahasa Inggris
Why Should We Improve Our Eco Living City
City is a place that has a non-agricultural activity with its function as a centre of the
government or social economy based on the service. Megapolitan city like Jakarta contains more
than 8 million people plus civic centre, and create many problem especially in involving the
environment. The problem has to be resolved as soon as possible because it will create positive
impact if we can improve Jakarta’s quality. There are many benefits that we’ll get if Jakarta is
turned into eco living city, so as citizens, we have to aware about our environment. The eco
living city can stimulate the economic growth, attract the investor, and improve health.
First, many tourists will come to eco living city especially in the free trade area. In
Indonesia, some cities like Kuta, Mataram, Yogyakarta, and Bandung are famous for the traveler,
but why don’t they want to visit Jakarta? Based on statistic centre, more than 7.1 million of
tourists visited Indonesia last year, but there were only 200 thousand of them visited Jakarta. If
we could turned the Jakarta into eco living city, Jakarta would be a choice for tourism object and
create new job for all kind of citizens. After increasing the foreign exchange, the economic
growth will increase significantly, and Jakarta will be one of the greatest city models in WTO
(World Tourism Organization). Consequently, eco living city makes the economic growth in
Jakarta better than before.
Second, the eco living city will attract the investor to invest in Jakarta. As we know, the
government budget for developing Jakarta actually is not enough due to many social problems
such as poverty, flood, politic, etc. Based on Department of Public Work data in 2014, there are
more than 71.05% of slum areas and the unused landfills in Jakarta that cannot be controlled
easily. If we turned the master plan based on eco living city, we can easily present to the investor
about our concept, so they can turn the unused landfills and slum areas to be tourism objects,
office center, and property by doing gentrification. The area will be developed by their own
money after the government reaches the agreement for their contract, so the eco living city will

2. Muhamad Dzaki Albiruni | XII MIA 4 SMAN 68 Jakarta
increase the aesthetic value and attract more people to visit Jakarta. If the consumption level
increases, the productivity of the industry in Jakarta will be increased too. Thus, eco living city
will be the smartest solution if the government cannot do an urban renewal.
Third, eco living city is usually use the environmental friendly system. Curitiba, Freiburg,
Adelaide, and Stockholm are the example of cities that providing enough of green area, using the
renewable energy and using hi-tech mass rapid transportation in order to reduce the amount of
pollution. However, Jakarta is still producing more than 150 𝜇𝑔/𝑚2
of air pollution and the
congestion is getting worse too that cause more than 1.2 million of people in Jakarta had the
problem with their lungs in 2015. Actually, if Jakarta can follow these cities, the amount of
pollution and waste will be reduced significantly, so it can improve our life condition and life
expectancy. Therefore, the eco living city will improve the citizen’s health and save more lives.
Now, with Basuki Tjahaja Purnama as a governor, there are many hopes for Jakarta to do
a sustainable development and develop every potential system to become the eco living city. I
hope Jakarta can be better than before, so all of us will have the better life quality soon. That’s
all of my speech, but before I finish it, there is a last word. When we heal the earth, we heal
ourselves. Let’s show to the world, that Jakarta is revered by the whole world! Thank you very
much for your attention.