Indonesia’s capital Jakarta is the world’s most polluted city, according to a new study, and the country’s president may have the cough to prove it. Ministers in the Southeast Asian country ...

Share the best of The Jakarta Post with friends ... “The government is of the opinion that reforming the slums is an impossible task with forced relocation to rusun [low-cost apartments ...

And the flies swarm in — large, black and persistent. This is life for thousands of people in one of Jakarta's urban slums. A scene that Australian Jacqueline Wales has become used to over the ...

Jakarta, Indonesia’s bustling capital ... Amongst the city’s malls, slums, and glistening skyscrapers, more than 10 million people have to breathe polluted toxic air every day.

Air pollution in Jakarta has hit such dire levels recently that the Indonesian capital has been named the most polluted city on Earth. Both the city and national governments blame vehicle ...

graveyards and slums are just round the block from these homes. And for decades now, the government has strove to resolve the housing and urban development challenge in Jakarta. What plans does ...

Multiple doctors have advised Farah Nurfirman to leave her hometown Jakarta for her health's sake. The 22-year-old asthmatic often wears a mask and carries an inhaler, but the air quality in the ...

I’m not talking about last week, but rather 1997, when an OPEC meeting in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta hiked output just as the Asian financial crisis was gaining momentum (and the week ...