Jakarta's daily life

Indonesia's capital and largest city, Jakarta, is home to around 12 million people, but the population is ever-expanding as rural migrants arrive seeking a better life. Instead, they find themselves living among eight million others in the dense slums of the city's urban sprawl. The slums are often built along river banks, highways and railway lines where only the desperate would choose to live.

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Passenger hands… Workers hang-on… Indonesian chil… Chicken at Jaka… Workers women w… Children plays … Volunter clean … Child fed giraf… Indonesian chil… An Indonesian p… Worker at Tanah… Children sit in… worker sit atop… Seawater hit Mu… Childs at Marun… Childs plays at… Woman wait in J… Child take a ba… A scavenger col… Elang, an Indon… A man walks nea… Clouds gather o… Indonesians que… A dry-dock work…

Soundtrack Jendela Kelas Satu by Iwan Fals Keywords jakarta indonesia daily life slum diarrhoea railway polluted water children child crocs plastic worker footwear