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Good air hard to find in smog-filled Jakarta.

Jakarta Post

| February 25, 2006 | COPYRIGHT 1999 PT Bina Media Tenggara. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From The Jakarta Post)

from THE JAKARTA POST -- SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2006 -- PAGE 2 That hacking cough is telling you something after all: Jakarta's air quality is getting worse, and vehicular emissions are a prominent contributor, a survey revealed Friday

There were only 28 good air quality days in 2005, compared to 53 the previous year, the Jakarta Environmental Management Agency said

"The air we breathed was mostly of a moderate quality level last year," Daniel Abbas of the agency's environmental harm control unit told The Jakarta Post on Friday

"The real fact is that the air quality has steadily worsened in Jakarta. The main …

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