TheJakartaPost
Please Update your browser
Your browser is out of date, and may not be compatible with our website. A list of the most popular web browsers can be found below.
Just click on the icons to get to the download page.
Popular Reads
No popular reads data found
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search results
Popular Reads
No popular reads data found
Top Results
No results found. Please check your search term and try again
Can't find what you're looking for?
View all search resultsurban-development
City 6 years ago
PREMIUM
Timber!: Jakarta sacrifices trees for urban development
In 2014, hundreds of trees in North Jakarta were cut down to make space for the Tanjung Priok-Pluit toll road, while in 2017, around 1,500 trees along the Sisingamangaraja, Sudirman and Thamrin roads also had to be chopped down to make way for the mega MRT Jakarta project.
Opinion 6 years ago
Too dense: An excuse for Jakarta's inaction!
Ironically, 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.
Opinion 6 years ago
PREMIUM
Pedestrians, vendors: Unite for more, wider sidewalks!
When I reflect on how to make a good city, the contestation between street vendors and pedestrians is puzzling. Instead of fighting, they should be forming a coalition, because pedestrians and street vendors have a common goal.
Opinion 6 years ago
PREMIUM
To build world's best-ever capital, copy Canberra
Neither Sydney nor Melbourne would consent to the other becoming the capital. For a while after 1901, the two cities agreed to rotate the responsibilities and take turns seating the elected parliamentarians to govern the country, until a new capital could be built somewhere in between.
