What is the air quality like to actually breathe in your experience? I have noticed Jakarta on lists of poor AQI and it doesn't look great [1] but I think the AQI number is kind of an abstraction.

[1] https://www.aqi.in/us/dashboard/indonesia/jakarta/jakarta/hi...

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ubercow13 2 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I found it probably the worst of anywhere I've ever been, you can taste it and just being outside slightly burns the back of your throat. I still really like visiting though.

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itake 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Air quality is terrible. AQI does not lie. It's even worse when you're sitting on the back of a motorbike 6ft away from 10 other gas powered bikes.

There is slow adoption of electric vehicles, but still very low adoption rate (like less than 10% of motorbikes).

	▲	thaumasiotes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Air quality is terrible. AQI does not lie. Heh. To get a sense of what the page's numbers might mean, I checked on Kaohsiung, where you can taste gasoline in the air as you walk down the street. And hey, reported air quality in Kaohsiung is abysmal, so that checks out. Jakarta even looks good by comparison. https://www.aqi.in/us/dashboard/taiwan/kaohsiung/kaohsiung https://www.aqi.in/us/dashboard/indonesia/jakarta/jakarta AQI appears to have Jakarta pegged at an average "66", which looks pretty respectable for the region. They seem to have much more carbon monoxide than Kaohsiung or Shanghai, but much less fine particulate.