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A view of the cemetery: Why house-hunting in Jakarta is a challenge
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In this city of contrasts, private-sector developers are on a tearing streak to build high-end condominiums for an expanding middle class. At the same time, graveyards and slums are just round the block from these homes.
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The Straits Times’ Indonesia bureau chief Arlina Arshad has lived in Jakarta for 16 years - and moved five times. What are the lessons that she’s picked up in searching for the right apartment in Indonesia’s capital city?
In this city of contrasts, private-sector developers are on a tearing streak to build high-end condominiums for an expanding middle class. At the same time, graveyards and slums are just round the block from these homes.
And for decades now, the government has strove to resolve the housing and urban development challenge in Jakarta. What plans does the Prabowo administration now have?
Highlights (click/tap above):
00:58 Every move an exciting and chaotic journey
04:03 Drawing the curtains on a graveyard
05:57 Indonesians’ attitudes towards the dead
08:31 Why Jakarta is so crowded
10:48 Fixing the housing challenge
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Host: Li Xueying ( xueying@sph.com.sg
Edited by: Fa’izah Sani
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