JAKARTA (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. Strutting ...

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, home to 10 million people, should be famous for its rich Betawi culture and thriving arts scene. Instead, it is notorious for biblical floods, sprawling slums and soul-crushing gridlock.

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 meals to poor people in Jakarta, to ...

Housing and Settlement Areas Minister Maruarar Sirait has called for a more integrated approach to handling slum areas, emphasizing that physical improvements ...

In the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia's poor are getting a taste of how the other half live thanks to a new programme that aims to take a bite out of its mammoth food-waste problem. Called a Blessing to ...

Across 17,000 islands, from the jungles of Borneo to the slums of Jakarta, millions of Indonesians were going to the polls Wednesday in one of the world's biggest exercises in democracy. More than 190 ...