This photo taken with a mobile phone shows a view of Jakarta seen from the top of National Monument in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 19, 2024. Located on the northwest coast of Java Island, Jakarta is the ...

Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as the world’s most populous city with 42 million people, highlighting Asia’s urban dominance and raising urgent challenges for infrastructure and sustainability.

Stopping Jakarta sinking cannot happen overnight, but the city is finally taking the action needed to stop groundwater extraction. If the government accelerates the provision of piped-water to all ...

And certainly after the traffic-clogged 25-mile drive in to central Jakarta from the airport I was fully aware that there are 7.5 million scooters in Jakarta, a number which increases by 900 a day ...

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world. If this goes unchecked, parts of the megacity could be entirely submerged ...

Aerial photo taken on May 1, 2019 shows a business district under sunset in Jakarta, Indonesia. Jakarta, located on the northwest coast of Java Island, is the capital and largest city of ...