The country has reduced its slum population by at least half in the last two decades, the fastest among Southeast Asian countries, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. “State of the World’s Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide,” an annual report released by the organization’s agency for human settlements, UN Habitat, stated that in 1990, more than 50 percent of Indonesians lived in slum conditions. In 2000, the percentage had decreased to between 25.1 percent... [Read Post]
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