Mr Andri Prihatin has been patiently unloading sacks of rice and bottled water in the past week at a neighborhood grocery ...

Many bring gifts from their work in the city, which often encourages thousands of relatives to follow them back in search of a better life in Jakarta, further exacerbating the overpopulation issue.

For the whole of last year, investment returns of life insurers dropped 29 percent to Rp 22.2 trillion as the IDX Composite index slid 2.65 percent. The main gauge of the Jakarta bourse has lost ...