Have you ever wondering to live in the cleanest air in the world? If so, Indonesia would be one of the list countries that you should write on your bucket list. From year to year, Indonesia with the ministry of environments and forestry makes a rating for the cleanest air to every city.
The rating makes people having a great competition to make their city clean, whether for the air, water, and many more. The government will give them an Adipura award for the city that capable to reach the goal.
This time, we will bring into some cities in Indonesia with the cleanest air from time to time. Most of them become the most tourism visit so that you may be familiar with them. So, let’s check them out below!
1. Pontianak
Pontianak is the capital city of West Borneo that famous for its equator line. That because in Pontianak, the equator line across the city. This city is big enough, with more than 400 million people lives there. Some regions are still covered by rain forests so that makes this city has the cleanest air.
In the last period of 2019 until the beginning of 2020, Pontianak becomes the city that has the cleanest air in Indonesia. The city achieved the Adipura award by the ministry of environments and forestry at that time. if you are born in Pontianak, you must be proud of this achievement.
2. Banyuwangi
Banyuwangi is located in East Java that so famous for the blue fire from the Ijen Crater. Banyuwangi contains the mountains and hills area that makes the city has cleaner air than others. Even though tourism visit high rapidly from time to time, the city keep has cleaner air because most of the forest that still exists.
Besides, Banyuwangi also has Baluran national park, G Land beach, and Teluk Hijau beach with a beautiful landscape. These areas help the city to produce more clean air than other cities.
3. Buleleng
Buleleng region becomes one of the cleanest areas in Bali. The city consists of beaches, hills with waterfalls, a lake, and a rain forest that you can find some native animals in Bali. These make this area not only has clean air but also clean water. Besides, some of these places are not well-known for tourism visits.
The lower rate of tourism visit makes sense for Buleleng to produce good air condition. If we are comparing with other areas in Bali such as Kuta as the most famous destination in Bali for tourist visits, Buleleng has cleaner areas than it.
4. Manado
Manado is located in the north of Sulawesi that so popular with beaches tourism. Most of the beaches there are still at a lower rate for tourism visits comparing with other popular beaches in Indonesia. The landscapes around the beaches following the city contains hills and forest that produces more oxygen than carbon dioxide.
If you visit Manado, you will not only breathe in the fresh air in the city but also the cleanest area there. For references, you can visit Tomohon city, Tumpa mountain as one of the mounts volcanoes in Indonesia, Lembeh Strait, or Bunaken national park with its forest rain as the biggest source of the cleanest air for the city.
5. Ambon
Ambon is located on Maluku island that so famous with beaches that so god for snorkeling or diving. Banda Neira becomes the most tourism visit in this city, but that doesn’t make the city has bad air pollution.
From time to time, Ambon still has the cleanest area than other cities in Indonesia. That because the landscapes of this city consist of beaches around the hills and forests. That is why the oxygen stock from the trees keep the city clean.
6. Banda Aceh
The air quality in Banda Aceh becomes steadier from time to time because the city is surrounded by mountains and beaches. These make the trees produce more oxygen to balancing the dioxide from people’s vehicles there.
You can also rent the ferry across the city to Sabang island as the most west island in Indonesia. Some forest have still existed around the city so that the city not only has the cleanest air but also the cleanest area.
7. Malang
Malang is located in East Java that consist of hills, forest, and mountains where the most endangered animals in Indonesia living there. The quality of the air in this city is no doubt even though tourism visit has risen rapidly. Besides, the government by the Ministry of environments and forestry has given the Adipura awards a couple of times.
If you have a plan to visit the city with the cleanest air in east Java, Malang can be included on your wish list. And be careful with common tourist scams in Indonesia that may come to you. Not only you will breathe in the cleanest air, but also refresh your mind.
8. South of Tangerang
South of Tangerang is a big city in Indonesia that you can visit with the cleanest air it has. You may be wondering why since there is no more much forest left in the city. Even so, the government in the city keeps doing the environment protocol regularly to check the car’s emission.
The system effectively reduces the bad air pollution which makes the air becomes cleaner than before. People become more discipline to check their vehicles to keep a good emission. This habit makes the city achieved so many awards a couple of time from the ministry of environments and forestry.
So, there are some glances about the Indonesian cities with the cleanest air from time to time. Most of them are steadily keep the area to get the cleanest air without harming the forest, beaches, or other areas in Indonesia.
