If it can’t, northern Jakarta, with its millions of residents, will end up underwater, along with much of the nation’s economy. Eventually, barring wholesale change and an infrastructural revolution, ...

About 40 per cent of the capital lies below sea level. The city has only a decade to halt the trend. Some coastal districts, like Muara Baru, have sunk up to a maximum of 4.2 metres in recent years.

A period of heavy rain and thunderstorms in Indonesia's capital city turned deadly and caused significant travel disruptions. The downpours began Tuesday evening and continued into Wednesday morning ...

00:07, Thu, May 2, 2024 Updated: 00:07, Thu, May 2, 2024 A major plan to move millions of people out of their homes and over a thousand miles away to a huge island full of chilling jungle tribes is ...

The risk is most severe in North Jakarta, where studies cited by the World Economic Forum have warned that up to 95% of the area could be submerged within the next 25 years. Built on swampy ground ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — Rasdiono remembers when the sea was a good distance from his doorstep, down a hill. Back then he opened the cramped, gaily painted bayside shack he named the Blessed Bodega, where ...