JAKARTA, Indonesia — In Kalideres, a slum on the western edge of Indonesia’s capital, the story of water is either too much or not enough. During the rainy season, flooding causes sewage to overflow ...

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 ...

The first thing that strikes you in Jakarta is the traffic: Motorbikes, cars and rusted minibuses flock day and night through the streets of this messy Indonesian metropolis. Traveling across Jakarta, ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Their school has a highway overpass for a roof and a garbage dump behind the blackboard. The classroom often floods, leaving students ankle-deep in filthy water. But the kids ...

JAKARTA, Dec 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Whenever floods hit her one-room shack in northern Jakarta, Irma Susanti hangs her most precious furniture – a bed and a table – from the ceiling with a ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy. Here's why. On a recent afternoon he visited Tambora, a densely populated area of ...

Aminudin has lived in a small wooden house in the Jakarta slum Tanah Tinggi for 35 years. Sifting through trash, he makes about 15,000 rupiah (US$1.50) a day selling bottles, cardboard, tin cans and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Their school has a highway overpass for a roof and a garbage dump behind the blackboard. The classroom often floods, leaving students ankle-deep in filthy water. But the children ...

"I decided to experience the real Jakarta," said a tourist, stepping gingerly between puddles of putrid water and a scurrying rat in a scene that would never make a postcard. Rohaizad Abu Bakar, 28, a ...

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, the governor of Jakarta, might well be the future of Indonesian democracy. Here’s why. On a recent afternoon he visited Tambora, a densely populated area of ...