IDRC

To the outsider, Jakarta’s Penjaringan neighbourhood might seem a symbol of the apparently intractable web of problems faced by roughly one billion slum-dwellers in the developing world. Tucked beneath an elevated highway that leads into the heart of the Indonesian capital, the area is a patchwork of tin-roofed, makeshift homes packed onto a small parcel of land. Thousands of people move, work and play in streets that are so narrow you can touch two homes with your arms outstretched. ...

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