Black rivers blight Indonesia's path to development
The locals call it the 'black river'. Running past the slums of west Jakarta, the canal looks as though thousands of litres of oil have been poured into it upstream. As we crawl through the city's ever-gridlocked traffic, another Australian journalist and I muse about what we would do...
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| Format | Newsletter |
| Language | English |
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Sydney
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
02.03.2011
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| Summary: | The locals call it the 'black river'. Running past the slums of west Jakarta, the canal looks as though thousands of litres of oil have been poured into it upstream. As we crawl through the city's ever-gridlocked traffic, another Australian journalist and I muse about what we would do first to help improve the lives of those who live in Jakarta's slums. A man named [Murhan] collects rubbish from a canal bordering a slum at Pekojan in Jakarta. A man named Murhan collects rubbish from a canal bordering a slum at Pekojan in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Source: ABC News |
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