S3 02 Keeping faith in Jakarta

Indonesia's award-winning poet Goenawan Mohamad once said that Jakarta has a congenital disease. It's a capital that was never seriously planned for… simply an accumulation of growth that became a city. And we know the symptoms: Jakarta's polluted, congested, and thirsty. But despite all of this, some 30 million people have put their faith in this Asian megacity by choosing to make it their home. So what role does faith have in defining Jakarta, and perhaps, what it could be?

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S3 02 Keeping faith in Jakarta is an episode from Return Ticket by Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

This episode is 0:25:45 long.

This episode was published on Apr 27, 2023.

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