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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.

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JAKARTA: Andri Prihatin has been patiently unloading ... in search of a better life for his family. The former worker at a tofu factory in Tegal in Central Java province aims to find a permanent ...

JAKARTA – The cats are playing in the playground at Arnamir Hotel Kucing & Spa in south Jakarta. Some are kicking a ball, some are sprawled over the payment machine on the table, and others are ...

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 ...