Government officials in Jakarta, Indonesia covered the polluted Sentiong River with a black net ahead of the 2018 Asian Games. The black mesh net installed earlier this month is supposed to hide ...

Clogged with decades of garbage, the river, officially the Sentiong, is one of the most polluted of Jakarta’s 13 rivers and canals. The nearly stagnant water beneath the new net looks more like ...

This month, the Jakarta administration covered an eyesore of a river with a giant nylon net ahead of the 18 th Asian Games in August. The Sentiong River, nicknamed the black river by locals ...

he Jakarta administration is planning to turn a 600-meter stretch of the Krukut River along Jl. Kali Besar Timur and Jl. Kali Besar Barat in West Jakarta into a clean river with a public park ...

A new river boat service has been launched in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, to try to improve the city's growing congestion problems. The move is part of a plan by the Jakarta governor to make ...

A toxic, foul-smelling river near the Asian Games athletes' village in Jakarta has been covered with black nylon mesh over fears it will be an eyesore at the showpiece event. Officials in the ...

City officials hope to ease road congestion with river taxis — and put a new focus on cleaning up the city's polluted waterways, too.