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The squatters of Jakarta
Definitive figures are hard to find but in south east Asia’s most populous city, the homeless population of Jakarta runs into hundreds of thousands if not millions.
Pictures: copyright Michael Coyne
- ucanews.com Tuesday 18 December 2012
Thousands like these children live along the banks of the Ciliwung river. A flood in 2007 rendered a quarter of a million of them homeless in a matter of hours.
Pictures: copyright Michael Coyne
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