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View all search resultsIronically, an estimated 60 percent of Jakarta's civil servants are unable to afford to live in the city they serve. They cannot even vote for the governor for which they work. They are pushed, as with countless others, by market forces to live on the fringes: Bogor, Depok and Bekasi in West Java and Tangerang in Banten. This results in a disastrous urban sprawl that gobbles up otherwise productive agricultural land and energy-draining commutes.
The regent of Bantul in Yogyakarta has revoked a building permit (IMB) previously obtained by the Immanuel Sedayu Pentecostal Church (GPdI) on the grounds that the church violated the regency's laws because it is also the pastor's house.
Lines of marketing billboards selling luxury houses and apartments stood at the entrance to reclaimed islet D when The Jakarta Post visited the area on Tuesday. The advertising billboards state the prices of residences on the island vary from Rp 3.4 billion (US$238,663) to Rp 6.2 billion, depending on size.
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