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Green Jakarta: A Difficult Path

It’s not easy being green. And it’s not cheap, either. Separating paper and plastic trash, switching off the light as you leave a room or walking instead of taking a car are simple individual acts that cumulatively can have a great impact. But what about dealing with multimillion-dollar budgets for citywide trash disposal? Or cleaning our skies of deadly smog, providing clean and safe drinking water, and limiting pollution from buildings? 11:57am Jul 27, 2010

Have Current Policies Eased Jakarta's Traffic Jams?

In an attempt to confront Jakarta's transportation problems, successive governors have applied a series of policies. Have recent moves, from the busway to 3-in-1 restrictions and car-free Sundays, helped? We take a look. 12:03pm Jul 27, 2010

Jammed Jakarta: a History of Sprawling Growth and Poor Planning

It was a simpler Jakarta, and one now lost in time. Newly-independent Indonesia’s capital was abuzz with optimism and nationalist fever in the late 1940s — not to mention the sound of electric trolleys rolling through the city center and out to Menteng, which then was just a suburb. 12:02pm Jul 27, 2010

The Supply: How Our Water Is Fouled on Its Way to the Tap

Jakarta’s dysfunctional water system hurts the poor the most. 12:01pm Jul 27, 2010

Water Worries: What’s Wrong With Jakarta's Water and What Can Be Done?

Special in-depth report: From reservoir to tap, the capital’s water system is in worse shape than many realize. Can it be fixed? 12:01pm Jul 27, 2010

The Obstacles: Old Batavia is Wrapped in Red Tape

There have been nine master plans to save Kota Tua since 1991. Each has fallen by the wayside once the magnitude of the task becomes clear. 11:56am Jul 27, 2010
Two hawkers resting in the shade provided by trees in Jakarta. (JG Photo/Safir Makki)
YOUR CITY
SAVING BATAVIA

Saving Batavia: A Vision of Jakarta's Past and Future

If you leave aside South Jakarta’s business corridor, the high-priced restaurants and the city’s many shopping malls, what are you going to do in a metropolis desperately short of public spaces? Where in Jakarta can you escape the pollution, traffic and pressure for a stroll through shaded streets, a coffee at a sidewalk cafe, a visit to an art gallery and a chance to enjoy the architectural treasures of a forgotten time? 12:03pm Jul 27, 2010

JAMMED JAKARTA

Do-It-Yourself Jakarta Traffic Solutions: Walk, Bike, Share a Car or Even Fly

Excruciating traffic jams and uncomfortable and sometimes dangerous public transportation have pushed some of us in Greater Jakarta to breaking point. But instead of losing hope, some enterprising people have found other modes of transportation. Here are some of the alternatives, depending on how much time, energy and money you have. 11:52pm Oct 23, 2009

Will Jakarta's MRT Arrive?

Too Many Vehicles, Too Few Roads

Easy Riders: But the Ojek and Bajaj Brigade Find it Hard to Make Ends Meet

GREEN JAKARTA

Green Jakarta: Great Idea. How Do We Get Some?

Fairly or unfairly, Jakarta is defined by its neighborhood slums, mega-shopping malls and torturous traffic. Little attention is paid to its parks - yes, it has some - or the slowly increasing number of outdoor oases that dot the capital, enabling city dwellers to feel, albeit temporarily, as if they're in a verdant land. 2:16pm Jun 23, 2010

Green Jakarta: Rethinking Where We Work and Live

Green Jakarta: The Nuts and Bolts of Setting Green Building Standards

Green Jakarta: What Makes a Building Green?

WATER WORRIES

Pay Up: How the Water Mafia Controls Access

Residential “entrepreneurs” — Jakarta’s legendary street mafia, or preman — exploit water shortages by selling clean water to residents from their own illegal house connections. 5:23pm Jul 24, 2009

The Sewage: Poor Sanitation Means Illness and High Costs

The Floods: A Swelling City Is at the Root of the Problem

Dredging the Rivers Means Uprooting Thousands of Squatters

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