JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The mood was tense in this capital city on July 6, 2014, the last day of the presidential campaign. Indonesian progressives, in particular, were frantic. For months their ...

The Jakarta administration, under the leadership of Governor Pramono, is aiming to upgrade all low-income neighborhoods and ...

Indonesia’s capital of 9 million people is growing new malls and office towers like rice paddies. Jakarta’s stock exchange district looks almost like Singapore’s. Yet slums packed with trash and ...

Jakarta Governor Pramono Anung, announced a significant decline in the number of the administrative neighborhood units (RW) ...

Somad rarely ventures beyond his impoverished Jakarta neighbourhood, but the 14-year-old is now gearing for a trip to Russia next month as a player in the 2018 Street Child World Cup. It's the journey ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the largest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis, you can directly go to the 5 Countries with the ...