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Jakarta 1 month ago

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Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

To deal with the shortage of burial plots for the dead, Jakarta is planning to revitalize and expand several public cemeteries across the city at the expense of poor residents who have lived among the graves on city-owned land for decades.

Jakarta 2 years ago

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Jakarta’s Kampung Bayam residents lament uncertainty amid political transition

To this day, the inauguration of the low-rise apartment building remains the closest Kampung Bayam residents have got to their supposed new home.

World 5 years ago

'Rely on God': A prescription for India's poor in pandemic

With scant supplies and underpaid staff, one of India's poorest states is scrambling to prevent a "blast" in coronavirus cases that medics say could cripple its precarious health system.

Business 5 years ago

Poverty rate rises in March as pandemic hits vulnerable communities

The poverty rate rose to 9.78 percent in March from 9.22 percent in September, BPS reported, as 26.42 million people were living below the poverty line as of March.

Business 5 years ago

Govt disburses $202 million for 5 million poor families via village funds program

In total, some 63,000 villages of the nearly 75,000 villages in Indonesia have received village funds.

World 5 years ago

From opera to bread line: Italy's surge in the 'new poor'

As Italy begins to feel the effects of its most punishing economic crisis since World War II, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, the number of those in need has shot up.

City 5 years ago

Man collapses from starvation in South Jakarta

A man fell to the ground in front of Gandaria City shopping mall in South Jakarta on Monday as a result of starvation.

World 5 years ago

For Haitians, die of hunger today or coronavirus tomorrow?

When the novel coronavirus first appeared in Haiti authorities and humanitarian experts panicked, worried about the country's decrepit health system -- but the pandemic's economic consequences could prove yet deadlier for the nation's poor.

World 5 years ago

'Should I buy a mask or food?'. South Asia's poor face stark choice

Buy a mask and let his family go hungry, or buy food and go out into the crowded city without one - that is the stark choice facing Hayatullah Khan, an Afghan laborer whose daily earnings have fallen below $1.50 during the coronavirus pandemic.

Opinion 5 years ago

Poor, rich Indonesians do not get equal access to COVID-19 tests: Why it’s a problem

Unequal access to testing can lead to late diagnosis and preventable deaths due to undetected COVID-19 among the poor.

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PREMIUM Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

PREMIUM Jakarta’s Kampung Bayam residents lament uncertainty amid political transition

'Rely on God': A prescription for India's poor in pandemic

Poverty rate rises in March as pandemic hits vulnerable communities

Govt disburses $202 million for 5 million poor families via village funds program

From opera to bread line: Italy's surge in the 'new poor'

Man collapses from starvation in South Jakarta

For Haitians, die of hunger today or coronavirus tomorrow?

'Should I buy a mask or food?'. South Asia's poor face stark choice

Poor, rich Indonesians do not get equal access to COVID-19 tests: Why it’s a problem

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Graves over homes: Jakarta’s cemetery crisis pushes out poor residents

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Jakarta’s Kampung Bayam residents lament uncertainty amid political transition