The capital of Indonesia surpassed Tokyo as the world’s most populous city after the United Nations overhauled how it ...

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Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as the world’s most populous city with 42 million people, highlighting Asia’s urban dominance and ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rasdiono remembers when the sea was a good distance from his doorstep, down a hill. Back then he opened the cramped, gaily painted bayside shack he named the Blessed Bodega, where ...

Sitting at an empty Jakarta stall, Alfindo Hutagaol gobbled down some rice, green sambal and grilled dog meat -- a meal that ...

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 by ...

Heading north from the city centre to the coastline, Jakarta seems to be collapsing in slow motion. The Indonesian capital sprawls, its black-glass business district giving way to a low-rise ...

Certain parts of the city have sunk 14 feet in recent decades, largely due to illegal well-digging. Slums built on swamp land near a garbage dump in East Cipinang, Jakarta Indonesia. (Photo by ...

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