1:10pm - Downtown Jakarta
			In the 1990s Indonesia boomed. But millions who had climbed out of poverty fell back into it when the country's economy collapsed in 1998. Today Jakarta's shimmering skyscrapers, icons of its wealth and prosperity, backdrop the worst slums in the archipelago.

Slums and skyscrapers

"Dirty, dirty," a woman resident said as we entered this slum 10km north of Jakarta. More than 5,000 people live here. Most are from Serang in west Java and Ujung Pandang in south Sulawesi. Less than half have jobs. Some work in the homes and gardens of their rich neighbours. The slum borders Pantai Mutiara, a wealthy housing estate where company owners and their families live in large, expensive homes. A high brick and cement wall, topped with security wire, separates rich from poor. Only their cable TV satellite dishes are visible. The slum was established 15 years ago. It's built on an old fruit garden and cane field, hence its name Kebon Tebu. Homes are built on a narrow strip of, what appears to be, reclaimed land with the backs of many sitting over the water on stilts. The waterway is part of north Jakarta's Muara Baru (new estuary). Residents told us their homes are flooded every wet season. Homes have no sewerage or water supply. The estuary is used as a sewer. Residents buy their water from a cart at 1,000Rp for a 20 litre container.

Jakarta's dispossesd by Andreas Harsono The UNESCO Courier, 1999