When I researched the best neighborhoods to stay in Jakarta, I got a bit intimidated t]by the size of this city. A sprawling ...

And it has to deal with mounting threats from climate change. By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN JAKARTA — Rasdiono remembers when the sea was a good distance from his doorstep, down a hill. Back then he ...

Jakarta is sinking, and at the worst possible time. As sea levels creep higher, the coastal megalopolis continues to pump too much water from its underlying aquifers, causing the land to collapse ...

Cultural, History, Nature GatG Jakarta might not be the first place that springs to mind for a solo trip, but this vibrant, ...

Jakarta is soon to become an ex-capital city. Indonesia is planning to move its administrative headquarters from its richest island of Java to the forest island of Borneo.

Our neighbour Indonesia has not been spared with its capital Jakarta now under threat of being submerged after it began sinking over the past few decades. Often, such a phenomenon is attributed to ...

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Handi Renanta has worked in Jakarta’s restaurant industry since 2009, but it wasn’t until six years ago when he and his wife started their unnamed vegetarian restaurant on Jakarta’s Kalimati ...