- Provincial government of DKI Jakarta
- Ministry of Public Work authority
- Jakarta Development Planning Board
- Ministry of Forest
The Government of Indonesia (GoI) has applied for financing from the World Bank for $150 million for the completion of the Jakarta Emergency Dredging Initiative (JEDI). Ethical concerns regarding the GoI's ability to implement initiatives and repay loans pose problems for citizens and institutions alike. As stated in the World Bank's Infrastructure Impacts and Response to the Global Financial Crisis, "[t]here are concerns surrounding the government's capacity to implement infrastructure investments."(source) The ethics surrounding the burden of additional debt taken on by the Indonesian government aside, the JEDI project will only account for approximately 5% of the estimated $3 billion in "infrastructure investment" loans from the World Bank in 2009. While thousands of people living in Jakarta will be forced to uproot themselves (source) and JEDI would "still leave some parts of North Jakarta prone to flooding, JEDI should help reduce Jakarta's flood-prone areas by up to 70 percent." (source) Moreover, "[i]t is expected that the project would benefit the poorer segments of the population, who live in the flood-prone areas and are most vulnerable to the immediate impacts of flooding including loss of income, medical costs, as well as the costs of infrastructure, business and home repairs." (source)
-Andrew Trabulsi
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