{
  "id": 26382,
  "title": "Jakarta, the world's most populous city, is sinking into the Java Sea",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/02/yakarta-la-ciudad-mas-poblada-del-mundo-se-hunde-en-el-mar-de-java",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-02T03:30:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "El Pais",
    "slug": "el-pais",
    "url": "https://elpais.com/internacional/2026-08-02/yakarta-la-ciudad-mas-poblada-del-mundo-se-hunde-en-el-mar-de-java.html"
  },
  "original_language": "es",
  "account": "Jakarta is a city on the limit, overflowing; it seems to be on the verge of bursting its seams. When it became the capital of Indonesia, after independence in 1945, it did not reach a million inhabitants. Today it is the most populous megalopolis on the planet, with almost 42 million residents, according to the UN, which includes the peripheral areas of Greater Jakarta in its calculations. In reality, it does not seem like a city, but a succession of metropolises, towns, villages, and underdeveloped housing areas arranged one after the other without any criteria, as if some capricious god had thrown them randomly onto the northwest coast of the island of Java and over the years had sedimented a gigantic, brownish urban crust, often covered by a layer of pollution.",
  "summary": "Yakarta, the most populous city in the world, is sinking into the Java Sea. The city, which became Indonesia's capital following independence in 1945, has grown to house nearly 42 million residents, according to the UN, including peripheral areas of the Greater Yakarta region. The city's sprawling, unorganized growth has resulted in a massive, brown-colored urban crust, often covered in pollution.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}