Jakarta is often beset with flooding, but heavy rains and commercial developments made the past week’s flooding especially widespread, and also especially egalitarian — inundating the homes of both the poor and the wealthy.
VIDEO: Hopes fading for finding survivors of boat crash off Indonesia
Locals in Indonesia making a living as rented carpool riders
Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from riding the roofs of trains Now they have an intimidating and possibly even deadly new tactic.
Poor Indonesians Make Money in Jakarta’s Traffic as Jockeys
The film, ‘Obama, the Menteng Kid,’ is the creation of Indonesian writer Damien Dematra who wrote a fictional novel on Obama’s upbringing in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Jakarta. BBC correspondent Karishma Vaswani joins us.
How do young people in the Indonesian province of Aceh have fun and obey strict Islamic or sharia law? As Julia Simon reports, they go listen to music in the region’s many coffee shops.
