Clean water is a luxury in the city's largest slums. Jakarta, Indonesia, March 31, 2008— -- In Kelurahan Penjaringan, one of Jakarta's largest slums, clean drinking water is a luxury for the ...

Jakarta’s stock exchange district looks almost like Singapore’s. Yet slums packed with trash and less-than-dollar-a-day poverty still occupy much of the Jakarta checkerboard. Now the city aims ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN)-- Hidden in the alleyways behind Jakarta's fancy malls and in between the high-rise apartment buildings is what Ronny Poluan, a former film maker, calls the "real Jakarta.

A dreadful odor envelops slums like Muara Angke, a coastal community of poor fishing families who build their shacks on the waste from the processing of mussels. Greater Jakarta is a delta city of ...

But in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Ronny Poluan gives guided tours of city slums to tourists. Critics say he exploits poor people for personal gain. Poluan says he is trying to make a ...

Roughly half of Jakarta comprises slums, according to a statement from the government. “This is the fact of slums in Jakarta. We along with the World Bank have determined that […] 118 out of ...

In the 21st century, slums are not anomalies at the margins of cities – they are the very frontline of urbanisation. Over one ...

Wed, August 26, 2015 Published on Aug. 26, 2015 Published on 2015-08-26T19:04:02+07:00 The city administration is planning to clear all slums in the capital by 2019. To meet the target ...

But the refurbishment will force thousands of Jakarta's poorest residents to leave the slums which surround the biggest dam. Stephani Widorini reports.

Rohaizad Abu Bakar, 28, a bank employee from Singapore, said he could not believe his eyes as he wandered around a Jakarta slum, a jumble of hundreds of shacks, some less than a metre from a ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — In Kalideres, a slum on the western edge of Indonesia’s capital, the story of water is either too much or not enough. During the rainy season, flooding causes sewage to ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia – Hidden in the alleyways behind Jakarta’s fancy malls and in between the high-rise apartment buildings is what Ronny Poluan, a former film maker, calls the “real Jakarta.” ...