Photos: Jakarta, the Sinking Megacity The Indonesian capital is one of the world’s fastest-growing megacities. But with the triple threat of a booming population, climate change and miles upon miles ...

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.

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- In a slum just a stone's throw from the gaudy mansions of Indonesia's rich and powerful, Rizal trades on human flesh and misery. Crowds of angry students, the urban poor, the ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — 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 ...

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 rope.

The three pile into the back, counting their meagre earnings and lighting a cigarette to share. Once dropped off, they walk by a polluted river and across a railway line to their Jakarta slum.

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 ...

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.

Governor of Jakarta Pramono Anung is encouraging residents of the capital who are still seeking employment to consider ...

Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo fields reporters' questions after meeting with residents of a Jakarta slum. Recent polls say Widodo is currently the most popular choice for Indonesia's president in 2014.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Josna Begum lives with her son in a house with four other families in a slum in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, the world’s most densely populated city. “Distancing ...

Study reveals high flood exposure risk for slum dwellers in Global South, urging equitable flood adaptation strategies.