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 ...

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 ...

Good Food Healthy Food in Jakarta Access to healthy food is also a problem in Jakarta, Indonesia's slums. Craig Redmond of Mercy Corps is working with street food vendors, which provide many of 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 ...

People pass the time in Bukit Duri. Photo: Tatan Syuflana The Jakarta government has plans to demolish the flood prone area of Bukit Duri. Photo: Tatan Syuflana Indonesian activist Sandyawan Sumardi ...

JAKARTA, IndonesiaJAKARTA, Indonesia — Joko Widodo’s phenomenal rise from a riverside slum, where he grew up, to the presidency of Indonesia spotlighted how far the world’s third-largest democracy had ...

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 ...

JAKARTA, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Deep in the slums of Jakarta, a transgender community is using fashion to raise awareness about their lives and the environment in this densely populated, polluted city.