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Clashing Visions of a Third World Metropolis: Can Jakarta Work For All its Citizens?
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INDONESIA'S CAPITAL, JAKARTA, IS, LIKE many Third World metropolises, a painful montage of extreme wealth and poverty. Luxury apartment buildings shoot above streets of small, ramshackle homes, huge mall complexes cast their shadows over vendors and beggars plying their trade on sidewalks and buses, and Mercedes-Benzes drive past trains with passengers stuffed into cars and sitting on roofs. While the Jakarta special district government announces plans to facilitate the building of 200 malls, half-finished highway ramps and unfinished skyscrapers stand as architectural reminders of the Asian ...
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Jakarta-Batavia: Socio-cultural Essays
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