February 11th, 2008 
Spooky 
No matter how much you love swimming I’m willing to bet the farm you wouldn’t dare do it here…unless you have a death wish!
This is the Citarum river, in Indonesia, possibly the most polluted river in the world, due to mankind’s greed and insensibility regarding environment. Once one of the most beautiful waters in Asia, now the Citarum is a graveyard of debris, where locals, who can no longer fish, risk their lives scavenging for bottles and anything else they might sell for a small profit.
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This garbage is problem to we all in the world, soon or later it will destroy our food in sea. and make some people lose they work as a fisherman…
And i Hope to Indonesia Governmant for make this river clean again so that people can take benefit from that river…. I hope is not to late to do….
Look at this website to see what one woman has been doing to try and combat this problem: http://www.xsproject.com.au
David Veksler: what regime are you talking about? From what I can tell Indonesia is one of the most laissez-faire countries in the world. It’s population represents a good example of the problems in philosophies that think the market can regulate everything. There are certian problems markets do not solve. The trash in the picture is a perfect example. What company has an interest in cleaning that up? Indonesia is a poster child for how markets also create and sustain inequality.
OMG!!!!!!!!! What a mess?…….. What a river of garbage?……….
I hav lived in Indo all my life. The pic u c is not photoshopped. Its real. I c it everyday. The average Indo adult has the mental maturity of a teenager. So its almost impossible to reason with them, whatever serious issues that you are trying to convey will just turn into a joke and they will laugh about it in front of you (seriously). These ‘kids’ think they know better than anybody else (foreigners). Even if anyone cares enuf (or is dumb enuf) to finance a ‘clean up’, all that money will be corrupted. So let them drown in their own filth. They deserve it. They really do.
wow weeping….very candid remarks….but sadly I lived in Indonesia for a year and I agree with your observations.
Same could se said for the whole human race…seems we need 50% of our time just to tell folks the need to live within our means
Not necesary due to “mankind’s greed and insensibility regarding environment”. It’s the population excess that leads to this. The best way to address pollution is decreasing human population.